Meadowbrook Park Field Trip
The Meadowbrook Park Field Trip Extra Credit is worth 2% overall course credit. Students are expected to arrive 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the field trip to sign an attendance sheet. Meadowbrook Park is accessible via walking, biking, or car. See map below.
To receive 2% overall course credit, you must:
1) Participate in the entire 2 hour activity. The field trip will be organized as follows:
a) After an introduction to the site, you will go for a hike which will highlight the ecology of the Meadowbrook Park and the efforts that have been made to restore the prairie after the land has been used for agriculture. Make sure to wear hiking clothes (long pants) and shoes (no sandals) appropriate for the weather. Be prepared to take notes.
b) Next, your leader will assign you an activity to do in the prairie that will use the plant anatomy knowledge you have learned in class followed by a group wrap up.
2) Write a summary of the field trip: at least 2 double-spaced, 12-pt. font, 1-inch margins all around, word-processed pages due as an attachment to e-mail to Beth. Include the following:
a) Summary of the social and ecological history of the site.
b) Drawing of one plant you studied labeled with its common and scientfic name.
c) Discussion of the medicinal properties or potential as a food source of the chosen plant.
d) Diagram a food web including your plant.
e) Discussion the role of fire in the prairie and list two adaptations of prairie plants to fire.
f) Citations for any information used from print sources.
Calendar of Events
Meadowbrook Park on
Sunday, Oct. 4,3-5 p.m.
Paper due in lecture on or before Oct. 19.
Books in Biology Library: On reserve: Prairie Plants of Illinois by Voight and Mohlenbrock and Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kindscher, in the reference section: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names by Quattrocchi and Guide to Flowering Plant Families by Zomlefer (See Appendix A).
Questions? Beth Morgan at bamorgan@life.illinois.edu.
Extra Credit:
Extra credit is added at the end of the semester as percentage points on top of the course grade you have earned. You can earn up to 2% extra credit for this project. Your points are dependent upon your participation in the field trip and the quality of your written report. Only partial credit will be given if the report is incomplete. No credit will be given without the report or if a student leaves the field trip early.
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