10 BIODIVERSITY, OCCURENCE OF ORGANISMS AND THEIR EXTINCTION IS THE RESULT OF EVOLUTION

Task 7:

WORKSHEET Workshop


Complete the table with typical tasks done in gardens, woods, fields, meadows and ponds in each season of the year.

Procedure:

The teacher explains the procedure of the table completion (demonstrates an example: autumn – field – ploughing). Collective correction. Evaluation by feedback or by oral evaluation (pupil‘s verbal assessment).

Recommended teaching method/organisational form:

Individual work/individualized instruction. Or the task can be done in pairs through a problem-based learning or it can be assigned for homework with a follow-up correction and a discussion at school.

Typical tasks for each season of the year:

Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Garden Cultivating of soil, sowing Weeding of patches,
cutting of grass,
and making hay,
watering		 Fruit and vegetable
picking, cultivating
of soil, fertilization		 Winterizing of trees
Wood Planting of saplings Fruit picking Mushroom picking Feeding of wildlife
Field Sowing of crops,
potatoes, ferilization		 Irrigation,
harvesting of corn		 Harvest of potatoes,
beetroot, ploughing,
fertilization, sowing
of corn		 Repair of agricultural
machines, sprouting of
plants
Meadow Fertilization, cutting,
clearance		 Cutting of grass and
making hay and
aftermath		 Cutting and
fertilization		 Protected by snow
Pond Cultivating of
vegetation on banks,
supplemental feeding
of fish		 Protection
measures against
Cyanobacteria,-
cleaning of water		 Fish harvest and
draining the pond		 Cutting through ice (water oxygenation)