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The format I am using is Padlet. This Final Field is organized in a top to bottom order. The first post is beginning with the introduction and moves onto the rest of the posts.

The Field Guide is composed of my best work in the course that shows I have mastered the course materials. The Guide can be in the future to be safe when exploring new environments, what steps to follow when in a new location, how to identify species and plenty of other ways.

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My posts under concepts (green) include quiz answers and media pieces that together show I am able explain all three topics as well as provide examples of these topics. I included my answers from quizzes, pond food web media, and organism care media.

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Skills - Explanation [Taken from 1A Quiz and Long-Term Habitat Study Media]

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Skills - Explanation [Taken from 1A Quiz and Long-Term Habitat Study Media]

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Explanation - Is experimenting as to why something is happening and how or simply why something is happening and how. Usually I compare the pictures after and each time when we come back my family and I mention the changes and give reasons as to why we think they have changed.

1. The habitat I would like to select would be open field at the end of our road. I have chose this habitat because over the years I have seen different animals there over the years. Since I drive by the place nearly everyday, and I have noticed several changes over the years but I haven’t paid that much attention. It's a large green field with a couple trees dotted along the fence line. I plan to actually explore this field and look around every year, to see the the changes that has happened every year,

2. I expect there be less animals, since there’s a chance the field could be a place for new homes to be built. Unfortunately, most of the fields we have lived by have been filled with houses. While it’s good for the town, it isn’t so much for the animals living there. I would not be surprised that if in five or ten years they began to build homes on this land, tearing down the trees in those spots. I think the birds that spend a lot of time there and in the trees will spend less time there, especially if the land is used for housing. The small bunnies I have seen would have to leave. If that happens I think raccoons and other small animals will find their way in.

3. Pictures will be my way of collecting data since I can compare of the previous pictures to the new ones to see all the large scale changes. For the smaller changes, I think it would be important to take notes on the small details I notice. Like what animals or organisms that I have observed.

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Skills - Description [Taken from Seven Steps Media]

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Skills - Description [Taken from Seven Steps Media]

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1. My location is my backyard, off of my porch. I spend a lot of time out here observing the animals, I think it’s interesting how they interact.

2. Above me there is a roof protecting my head from the elements,

3. The climate is 72 degrees today, sunny and a little bit of clouds.

4. The terrain is flat, if you look further you can see the Coburg Hills in the distance.

5. My mom has planted various types of Maple Trees, and any other species she thinks

6. looks cool. She competes with my grandpa to see who can have the most unique trees. As for animals, we have cows, deer, turkey, hummingbirds, squirrels, raccoons, fox, an occasional coyote, various types of birds, and our neighbor's goat. We have moss on our trees so I know we have some microscopic organisms there, and the birds and turkey are always eating bugs from our yard. We have various types of fruit trees like apples and pears.

7. The turkey’s fight over the apples from our apple tree with the deer, the deer usually win. The two baby deer living in our yard are very curious about the baby cows, sometimes they’ll bump noses through the fence. The baby cows and deer are very interested in our cats, they don’t seem to know what they are.

8. Human impact would be the little red barn my mom has for all her gardening tools. The driveway cutting though the yard. There are various hummingbird feeders, bird houses, and bee houses.

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Skills - Exploration [Taken from Field Kit Media and Safety Checklist Media]

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Skills - Exploration [Taken from Field Kit Media and Safety Checklist Media]

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My field kit media and safety checklist media shows that I understand exploration and how to be prepared to go out into the field safely.

Lab Safety
- wear gloves, googles, and a mask
- think of family and animals
-  clean up any materials
- keeping a clean work space
Outdoor Safety
- protective shoes and clothing
- think of family and animals
- think before smelling or tasting
- stay in yard

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My posts under skills (blue) include quiz answers and media pieces that show I am able to carry out explanation, description and exploration. My quiz answers and media pieces show that I am able carry out all three process to develop a better scientific understanding. I have included quiz answers and multiple media pieces that show I can carry out these processes.

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My posts under skills (purple) include quiz answers and media pieces that show I understand how to teach/learn about different topics in nature. I have included notes that I have taken in the course, my seven steps media, and a picture I took while observing snails. These show that I understand how to make connections in my notes, in my own personal experiences, and while working on media pieces.

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Concepts - Ecology [Taken from  6A Quiz and 6B Quiz]

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Concepts - Ecology [Taken from  6A Quiz and 6B Quiz]

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Sea otters eat sea urchins, and sea urchins eat the sea kelp. Without sea otters, there's a larger number of sea urchins that eat the sea kelp. The removal of sea otters has caused sea urchins to overeat sea kelp, meaning the kelp forests are not as full as they used to be.

Keystone Species is a species that has a large impact on its community even if there isn't a high biomass

1. Sea stars, since the die out of them it has effected the food web

2. Sea otters are, without them to eat the sea stars, the kelp becomes over ate

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Concepts - Biodiversity [Taken from Pond Food Web Media and 7B Quiz]

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Concepts - Biodiversity [Taken from Pond Food Web Media and 7B Quiz]

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Building my own pond with a grant to purchase organisms. These are the organisms I would purchase for my pond:
Microscopic producers:

1. Algae

2. Euglena

Macroscopic producers:

1. Azolla

2. Water Lily

Microscopic Protist Consumers:

1. Amoeba

2. Rotifers

Macroscopic Animal Consumers:
1. Daphnia

2. Nematodes

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Concepts - Conservation Biology [Taken from 6A Quiz and Organism Care Media]

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Concepts - Conservation Biology [Taken from 6A Quiz and Organism Care Media]

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Increasing Sea Star Population:
Limited Resources:

1. Territory, they might not have enough room for their species

2. Potential mates might be lacking because of the incident

Potential threats:

1. Environmental change, could be effect the sea stars

2. Predators could be eating the sea stars

Organism: Deer in our back yard (these are mostly things I already do because I love our deer) Limited Resources:

1. Water is addressed since we have a large water trough that is constantly full of fresh water since the house is hooked up to it.

2. Food, they usually eat our grass or apple trees, but when the run out of apples I go out and shake the tree so more apples fall. I also give them any fruits or veggies I don’t finish eating from my meals, the turkeys love it too.

3. Shelter, they sleep under our trees and shrubs during the night. My mom put out a dog crate a long time ago for our cats, and I’m pretty sure the baby deer sleep in them. Continued Threats:

1. Diseases can be helped by providing them with fresh food and making sure the others seem to be okay if one gets sick.

2. Predators hardly get to the deer since we have two dogs that bark at everything, so if anything comes by that can harm them usually gets scared off. I think keeping thick areas of trees helps protect them, and they settle inside the bushes we have underneath our windows which protects them too.
Life Stages: As the baby deer get older we still do all the same things, shake the apple trees and put out fresh food, because once they get older they’ll bring their babies back to our yard. Every year we get baby deer and my whole family loves them. We have a large fence around our yard, and then a cattle yard, mama deer leaves the babies in our yard and then goes to the cattle yard. The babies trust us now (we never get too close) and they really love our cats. Consistent: I’ve already stayed consistent with this plan, I’ve done all these things before this class, and I never realized it was a plan to protect them until now. However, where ever I am living I want to make sure the organisms are doing okay and healthy.

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Connections - Photo [Taken from personal photos]

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Connections - Photo [Taken from personal photos]

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This is a picture that I took a couple years back in my yard. I've never seen snails in such a large group, and haven't since. I thought it was a good picture to use since it's showing how you can observe a species and learn about them just from watching. I learned that snails can be in large numbers in an environment, even if you commonly see them in smaller numbers.

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Connections - Writing [Taken from Seven Steps Media]

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Connections - Writing [Taken from Seven Steps Media]

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1. My location is my backyard, off of my porch. I spend a lot of time out here observing the animals, I think it’s interesting how they interact.

2. Above me there is a roof protecting my head from the elements,

3. The climate is 72 degrees today, sunny and a little bit of clouds.

4. The terrain is flat, if you look further you can see the Coburg Hills in the distance.

5. My mom has planted various types of Maple Trees, and any other species she thinks

6. looks cool. She competes with my grandpa to see who can have the most unique trees. As for animals, we have cows, deer, turkey, hummingbirds, squirrels, raccoons, fox, an occasional coyote, various types of birds, and our neighbor's goat. We have moss on our trees so I know we have some microscopic organisms there, and the birds and turkey are always eating bugs from our yard. We have various types of fruit trees like apples and pears.

7. The turkey’s fight over the apples from our apple tree with the deer, the deer usually win. The two baby deer living in our yard are very curious about the baby cows, sometimes they’ll bump noses through the fence. The baby cows and deer are very interested in our cats, they don’t seem to know what they are.

8. Human impact would be the little red barn my mom has for all her gardening tools. The driveway cutting though the yard. There are various hummingbird feeders, bird houses, and bee houses.

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Connections - Notes [Taken from Notes Media]

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Connections - Notes [Taken from Notes Media]

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These are the first notes I took for the course that show I am able to take great notes that myself and others can learn from.