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South Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84102  \n(801) 531-0999  \n-2-  \nHOW TO USE THESE PRE-TOUR ACTIVITY PAGES  \nYou should complete these pre-tour activities with your students approximately 1-2  \nweeks BEFORE you take your students on their Fall Wings and Water preserve tour. Learning that has been build into these pre-tour activities and materials includes:  \n1. Wetlands are an important part of Utah.  \n2. Wetlands are linked to all parts of the water cycle.  \n3. Wetlands conditions are affected by our weather and climate.  \n4. Plants and animals in the Great Salt Lake wetlands have fascinating adaptations that allow them to thrive.  \n5. The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve is a wetlands sanctuary where people can see and learn about healthy wetlands and their residents.  \nFor each of these topics, we provide the following:  \n1. Meeting the Standard—explains which state core curriculum science standards correlate to each topic.  \n2. Checkpoints for Teaching—describes the concepts that should be incorporated into your lesson plan and that you should ensure students understand.  \n3. Student Discovery Guide Activities—in-class activities based on the Student Discovery Guide. Provided to you by The Nature Conservancy, the Discovery Guides serve as workbooks and field guides with specific pages that correlate to the five pre-tour topics listed above.  \n4. Background Information—topic-specific information designed to help teachers prepare their lesson plans.  \n5. Options for Further Activity—other concepts and ideas for activities.  \n6. Other Resources—references for more information.  \n7. Related Vocabulary—a list of topical vocabulary that should be addressed in your lesson plan.  \nPlease Remember: These in-class materials and activities are designed to enhance your students’ wetlands education and Wings & Water Tour experience. They have been constructed to help you meet the State Core Curriculum Standards for the study of wetlands and should work hand-in-hand with curriculum that you already have in place. As you plan your science curriculum for the year, please incorporate these topics and activities into your classroom studies with your Preserve field trip in mind.  \n-4-  \n\n| FALL | PRE-Tour Topic \\#1 : Wetlands\u003Cbr>THEME: Wetlands are an important part of Utah. |\n| --- | --- |\n\nCheckpoints for Teaching  \nBelow are the concepts your students should understand about wetlands before they take their FALL preserve tour.  \nPreliminary Preserve Tour Information  \n􀂾 Use the upcoming Preserve tour to frame your introduction to wetlands and the Wings and Water study unit. Briefly describe the adventure that awaits students and explain that their upcoming science investigations will be preparing them for that experience.  \n􀂾 Introduce the students to the Discovery Guide.  \nPhysical Characteristics of Wetlands  \n􀂾 Your students should help to construct and be able torecite a descriptive definition for wetlands.  \nMeeting the Standard: This topic correlates to the following Utah state core curriculum standard for science:  \nSTANDARD V. Students will understand the physical characteristics of Utah's wetlands, forests and deserts and identify common organisms for each environment.  \nObjective 1 : Describe the physical characteristics of Utah’s wetlands, forests and deserts.  \nStudent Discovery Guide Activities  \nUse the Student Discovery Guide to review and assess learning from the checkpoints listed above. This activity correlates to pages of the Student Discovery Guide and Field Guide.  \nFRONT PAGE and INSIDE COVER  \nIntroduce your students to the Student Discovery Guide as the resource they will be using before, during and after their tour to the Preserve.  \n􀁸 Distribute a Discovery Guide to each student and browse through it with the students. 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