Test students' matching skills with this fun game.
No special materials needed.
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Let students examine the leaf. Is it pointy? round? smooth? fuzzy?
Begin your walk. Have students search for the tree that has the same type of leaf. How many trees can you find with the same leaf?
Adapt the Activity
Instead of having all students search for a single type of leaf and tree, you mightInvolve students in some of these extension activities:
Make a leaf person. Press a leaf in a phone book for a couple days. Then glue it to a piece of construction paper. This will be your "leaf person's" body. Draw a head, arms, and legs with a crayon.
Collect a big bunch of colorful autumn leaves. Arrange them in a glass to create an autumn-leaf bouquet.
Collect a bunch of green leaves. Trace each one on some paper. See all the different shapes. Look in a leaf identification book to find the type of tree to which each leaf belongs.
Sort Them Out
Notice that leaf lines, or veins, in some leaves are side-by-side in straight lines. In other leaves, the
leaf lines look like branches. All leaves have one or the other pattern: straight lines or branches. Sort
your leaves into those two groups.
Education World's special Fall Lesson Archive
This activity is excerpted from Nancy Castaldo's Sunny Days and Starry Nights, which is published by Chicago Review Press. The activity is one of more than 65 activities from Sunny Days and Starry Nights that are sure to inspire children as they discover and learn.
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Article by Nancy Castaldo
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07/18/2006