More Resources:
While it is anticipated that the following resource sections and their materials will be sufficient for your lesson planning, if you want to check out a few more lesson plans that you might implement in a number of other ways, see below:
- Photos from the actual site: See these photos and placards for specific details about the site: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ivPKxDrjWPg5dxyz9
- TEACHER’S GUIDE TO WETLAND ACTIVITIES: Created by Duck’s Unlimited, this guide has lots of activities you could use!
- Here is a Wetlands Coloring Book, which could be printed in its entirety, or just parts as you choose.
- These lessons from Wetlands Live can be used for upper elementary classes.
- These lessons from Montana are a good resource as well!
- Here’s a cool way to incorporate STEM into a study of the wetlands: https://www.plt.org/stem-strategies/watch-on-wetlands/
- Here is a lesson that looks at wetlands and estuaries (where rivers meet lakes); this could be adapted to look at the rivers flowing into Utah Lake and associated wetlands, etc.: https://glaquarium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Freshwater-Esturary-Model-Lesson-Plan.pdf
- This series of guides from the state of Washington has some good resources (note that not all of the plants, animals, etc. are exactly the same as Utah, especially the sea-based ones, but there are many useful resources / activities here, such as the Native American story about skunk cabbage, which can easily be modified to work for your classes:
- Discover Wetlands — lessons, activities, experiments — just about everything you could possibly need, except the water.
- And here is the second part to this curriculum — Amazing Wetlands: Functions and Values — complete with cross-curricular lessons in language, social studies and other areas.
- People and Wetlands — this is the third part of this curriculum, offering songs, writing activities, and many other creative activities.
- Field Studies: A Walk On The Wild Side — this fourth unit will get you out of the classroom and help guide your visit to an actual wetland.