Learning from the Glades
The cedar glades can serve as a natural laboratory to teach many branches of science.
- Several parks in the central basin have naturalists who lead field trips into the glades.
- The Center for Cedar Glades Studies has assembled a group of local teachers who regularly teach science out of the cedar glades and developed lessons which are described below.
Who We Are
Marrie Lasater
Former elementary school teacher at Homer Pittard Campus School
Melissa Turentine
Former science teacher at Cascade Middle School
Kim Hinton
Teacher at Siegel High School
Kim Cleary Sadler
Professor of Biology Education at MTSU
The exercises listed below are in PDF format. Lessons may be adapted across most grade levels.
Elementary Exercises
Supplemental Materials
Middle/High School Exercises
- Zoning Out in the Glades
- Life Cycle of a Coneflower
- Kinesthetic Dichotomous Key
- Gallery Tour of Glades
- Cedar Glade Bingo
- Cedar Glade Zone Model
- Food Web of Life in Glades
- Fossilization in Glade Limestone
- Glade Temp and Graph
- Parts of a Flower Flipbook
- Prairie Warbler Survival Lesson (Parasitism)
- Foldable Cedar Glade Food Web
- Symbiosis in the Glade
- Predator and Prey in the Glades
- Energy Pyramid
- Genetic Analysis of Invasive Species
- Limiting Factors in the Glades
- Role Play Activity