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HOW DO WE CALL INTO THE FOREST Play a game How do we call into the foerst. Imagine that you are in a forest and your teacher „calls“ words connected with a forest ecosystem. A chosen pupil responds with a word which he/she imagines to the term which calls the teacher. Others can write down their words.

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A green heart of Europe

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1. A forest is a community with a lots of organisms plants and animals, which are depended on each other. Old foresters spoke about a forest spirit. They expressed in this way that all compoments in a forest coexist and none of them can exist separately. http://www.mezistromy.cz/cz/les/les-jako-ekosystem Try to mark the Highland region on the map. How would you describe forests here compared To other regions? A map of forests in CZ in 2009

Compared to other European countries our forests are not bad, because only Finland, Sweden and Austria have more forests. Most of our covers are agriculutural forests. Forests are planted and we call them spruce monocultures. Encyklopedie naší pøírody, Miloš Andìra, Slovart, 2000

Projekt: Podpora EVVO na základních školách v Pacovì, Registraèní èíslo projektu: CZ.1.07/1.1.01/02.0066 Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpoètem Èeské republiky

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2. A forest from lowlands to mountains. In this chapter we will have a look at different types of forests, which originated in natural conditions of our republic. Step by step you can find out that all forests are not the same and specific kinds of organisms appear only in specific types of forests. Have a look at the pictures and fill them in the empty spaces according to the forest types.


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3. Forest levels Find in circles plants` representatives of particular levels and write their numbers into the levels where they belong. Write a number of a correct picture to the plants. You can colour each level in green shades.

A TREE LEVEL

A SHRUB LAYER A HERB LEVEL A MOSS LEVEL

A ROOT LEVEL

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a blackheart, a male fern, a paigle, an European beech, a wood sorrel, a raspberry, a spruce, a wild strawberry, a polytrichum commune


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4. Nonflowering lichens Lichens are sensitive to polluted air, therefore we can see if the environment is healthy. You can research your surrounding to find out which lichens grow there. With help of atlases match numbers of lichens to the pictures. Do you know where to find them? 1.a sea snail, 2. a tree moss, 3. an Iceland lichen, 4. a Xanthoria parietina, 5. a Rhizocarpon geographicum

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Fauna and animals in a forest

1. Birds in a forest Match indicia to the pictures. Fill the number.

1. Coloured wings, a heart-shape face, a greatly endangered species, rodents, birds and reptiles, hearing, disgorging, tree hollows, sharp talons. 2. Ravens, colourfulness, flapping flying, acorns and beechnuts, hiding places, blue feathers.

A BARN OWL

A JAYBIRD

A BUZZARD

A THRUSH

3. A speckled throat, a solitary insect, fruits and berries, a clayish nest, shrubs. 4. Long and wide wings with black end of a remex, rodents, birds and reptiles, engagement flyings, a nest high in the treetop, monogamous.


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2. Trees like houses Trees provide home for a lot of various animals. Write in the picture correct caption of animals: a tawny owl, a marten, a stock dove, a hornet, a lesser noctule, a loir, a nuthatch, a wood-pie. Try to write other representatives of animals which you can find on a tree.


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3. 3. Your own observation and maping of a tree. Go to nature ( a park, a school garden, a forest...) and try to find the most animals on trees. To define species use atlases and draw the animals in the picture.


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4. 3. A forest full of food Match an animal with a picture of food which it eats and name the animals (a wild boar, a roe deer, a marten, a shrew, a dormouse). You can colour the pictures.

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5. Baby animals What will you do if you find a deer baby animal in a forest, on a clearing or a on a meadow? An ostensibly abandoned deer baby animal Calves of red deers are born at the begining of summer they hear when they are born, they can see, have hair, they are able to follow their mother. A calf is able to stand on it`s feet in a half an hour after the birth. It is difficult at the begining so it has to rest a lot. A red deer doesn`t stay at the calf not to attract attention, but they are in a permanent contact with a gentle whistling.

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An anthill Have a look at a model of an anthill or an ant`s aquarium. The biggest anthills are more than one meter high, they extend deep in the earth and they persist on one place over ten years. There is a maze of tunnels and small rooms covered with a pile of leaves, needles and branches in the underground.

A cross-section of A red ant`s anthill

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A hierarchy in an anthill Ants have to fulfil a lot of tasks, their descriptions ants bring in a genetic information at their birth. The future of descendants determines a queen during eggs laying. From some of them hatch nannies which care for pupas and maggots, other ones will work as workers and some of females takes over a role of soldiers which will protect an anthill against invaders. Males are the last ones in a line and their only task is to fertilize the queen during the wedding flight. The gueen loses it`s wings and founds a new colony, alternatively it penetrates a foreign nest to kill it`s queen and takes over the reign. Http://oko.yin.cz/12/mravenec-lesni/


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An ant`s development Number the pictures with ant`s developmental stages and fill numbers to names of the stages. an egg (cocoon) a maggot a pupa an adult

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An ant and food Choose animals in the pictures which ants eat and tick them. Define which kind of food it is( a bark beetle maggot, an aphid, a mole, an ichneumon, a flower fly, a click beetle, a juice from leaves). Do you find an animal which ant doesn`t eat but breeds it for it`s honey? Mark it.

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Ants and aphids inseparable friends Aphids suck juice of an invaded plant, which is full of sugar. They excrete a redundant sweet nectar out of their bodies in a substance of glutinous honey. The honey lures ants because it comprises 50% of their diet. In return for a sweet delicacy they provide to aphids protection against insect`s predators and for aphids` eggs they offer a safe overwintering in their nests. In spring they carry out the eggs on the plants to develop a new population and they can taste the sweet honey again. http://www.chovatelka.cz/svet-zvirat-clanek/mravenci-a-msice-ziji-v-symbioze-12


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ENUMERATE OR DISCOVER Enumerate the most plants and animals, which you can find in forests` levels. To get new knowledge you can make a research directly in a forest with a help of atlases, hand glasses or nets for small insects. Examine the animals, draw them, write notes and give them back. a moss level:

a herb level:

a shrub layer:

a tree level:


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