Studying Habitats and the Transition Zone

The Grade 4 class has been studying habitats in Science. They've visited the forest, the meadow, and the river habitats in Rouge Park. Today the class visited the transition zone, the micro-habitat between the forest and the meadow. They explored the area, made observations and then wrote about their insights and experience in their Journals.

The Transition Zone

By Parwez, Rm 208.

Today we were in a transition zone. A transition zone is the area between the meadow and the forest. There were tall grasses, bushes and a few small trees. There were lots of sticks and fallen branches on the ground.

The leaves around us had changed colour because it is Autumn. Some leaves were already on the ground. Mr. Daffern taught us about how seeds travel. Seeds travel by flying or floating, sticking to animal fur and being eaten and dropped by animals. We saw maple seeds. Maple seeds are called maple keys. They fly like helicopters.

We saw a field mouse. We saw snails. We saw mushrooms. Wild mushrooms can be poisonous. We didn’t see many insects. Most insects have hibernated or died.