7th Grade

Students will:

• Visit the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA)
• Hike the Bittern Marsh Trail or Blackjack Trail.
• Make observations and connections related to environmental changes over time, energy transfers, patterns of human impact and systems maintaining balance.
• Visit the Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility (LAREF).
• Conduct macroinvertebrate studies at research ponds.
• Test water quality.
• Observe and explore plant and animal adaptations including those od aquatic and terrestrial plants.
• Visit Ritter Cemetery.
• Make historical connections to the settlers of the Lewisville Lake area.
• Observe and classify trees in the area.