Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Rowe Third Graders--Do you know...?

The questions is...do you know why a prairie doesn't have trees and brush?

The Rowe Third Graders visited a Prairie for their field trip last Friday. We talked about what happens naturally to keep the trees and brush from growing and turning the grassland into a forest.

There was a PRAIRIE where I just spent the last week for first aid training. I was looking out the window and I was wondering how they kept their Prairie looking like this:


rather than this:


DO YOU KNOW the answer to the question? Here is a hint. Look closely at the photos below to see evidence of what natural event?


What color is the dried grass between the new green grass?

Brown is natural. What causes it to be black?

What happen to cause the marks at the bottoms of the trees?

ANSWER ON THURSDAY

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