Mrs. Teague's Class - October 16, 2007

Animal Tracks and Signs
NC Museum of Natural Sciences


John
In the distance learning classroom on October 16, I was with the acorn and nuts and pinecones group. There was a gray squirrel. We had the table with numbers 11-15. The class and I saw a lady. She showed us a snake skin and chewed up wood from a beaver. We saw a black rat snake.

Britney
I know where some tracks are. You have to go to the woods and look closely. The tracks may be hiding in the bushes. The animal may be close to the footprint! I can tell you what kind of track it is. It is a raccoon that left the prints. Mrs. McDermon helped the class in the distance learning classroom. My table and I had the goldenrod gall ball. A fly lays her eggs in the stem. Mice have small feet. A bear's scat is a sign, not a track. It shows if a bear is close by. I had fun learning about animal tracks and signs.

Brizeda
Animal Tracks and Signs are important. There is a raccoon and you can tell by his footprint. At my table we learned about owls, bones, and mice. I had fun when we learned about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom with Mrs. McDermon.

Destiny
We saw bear scat, and we saw a raccoon footprint. Next we saw a bear scat and we saw a snake skin and a live snake. My class saw raccoon scat. Then we saw a flying squirrel. It pooped on the lady at the museum and it bit her. It would not come out of her shirt. The flying squirrel was a pretty one. It was scared. Yesterday was a pretty day and a good day to learn about animal tracks and signs.

Destiny D.
When the grass is green under the bear scat, the bear is around. But when the grass is brown under the bear scat, the bears are gone away. A bear eats purple berries. The gall ball is a stick with a ball on the top. The fly lays their eggs in the side of the gallball. When the flies are ready to come out of the gall ball, they make a small hole. A mouse has a small foot. A mouse has a small body. My table had a bear scat that was hard as a statue. The top was hard. A snake can bite. It has no legs. It can bite. I had fun learning about animal tracks and signs.

Eric C.
Animal tracks are tracks that you can see. You can see tracks in the snow. Sometime you can tell what animal has been there because of the track. You can find tracks anywhere. You will find tracks in mud. The animal sign I learned about is a gall ball. A gall ball is a stem that a fly's been on. It lays eggs there and later eats it's way out.

Eric R.
In the distance learning classroom, I learned about bear scat. The scat was rough. It had seed from berries that the bear had eaten. I also got to touch a snake skin. It was soft. The snake skin was a sign. I had fun learning about signs and tracks.

Franklin
I went to find about tracks and signs. Our teacher passed out a snake skin and beaver stick. The first thing we saw was snake skin and we touched the snake skin. Next thing was the raccoon poop and the squirrel nut. It was round. It also had a tiny hole in the nut. Our table talked about the squirrel. We learned that by looking at the nut we could tell which squirrel had eaten the nut, a gray squirrel or a flying squirrel. It was round. It also had a tiny hole in the nut. Our table talked about the squirrel. We saw a flying squirrel at the museum. I enjoyed learning about animal tracks and signs.

Erica L.
A gall is a place for a fly to lay her eggs. When it is ready to hatch, it chews its way out of the gall. A beaver can easily find a home but sometimes it can make a home with its strong teeth. Beavers chew on tree bark wood. You can find footprints in the woods, in the rain forest, and the desert. When you are finding footprints you're making your own footprints by walking. The lady at the museum took out a live snake and a flying squirrel. The flying squirrel left scat on her shirt! When she tried to get it out of her shirt, it bit her! The rabbits scat is a little like an ice cream dib. The fox's scat is about 2 1/3 inches. I had fun learning about animal tracks and signs.

Garrett
We went to learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. I learned a bear's scat is big and touched snake skin. I had a raccoon footprint. It was little. I learned a lot. I learned not to touch a flying squirrel. We learned about bear's tracks and possum's too. We saw a real squirrel and a real snake. Bears eat purple berries. We learned about a bear's poop. Animals show signs that they have been there. When the grass is green under the poop, then the bear is near by.

Jake
Yesterday, October 16, 2007, my class and I went to the distance learning classroom for a field trip of animal tracks and signs! Animal tracks are something that is left in soil like bear, duck, cat, crane, deer, frog, turtle, beaver, fox, raccoon, dog--all kinds of tracks. Signs are something that you can tell that an animal has been there. Group 1-5 had bear scat. Group 6-10 had a gall ball. Group 11-15 had pinecones and nuts eaten by squirrels. My group, which was 16-20, had an owl pellet. Group 21-25 had a raccoon track. We saw snakeskins, a real live snake, and a flying squirrel! It was great going to the distance learning classroom.

Justin
Rabbit scat is small like a bug. Raccoon scat is big like a big chair. All of the others are small like a bug. When you see some poop, it means an animal is near-by, so if you see poop, you can tell what the animals ate. In the mud where animals go, you will see the footprint, too. The gray squirrel left a big open hole in the nut. The snake was long. Some snakeskin will come off his body, too. My group and I had a footprint. A raccoon's footprint is small. I had fun because I saw a flying squirrel.

Mia
My group studied about a squirrel and nuts. We saw a snake and a flying small squirrel. Our class did not taste because people had their hands on the stuff and we did not want to taste germs. Next, we smelled and felt and touched a snake skin. The lady from Raleigh, North Carolina got the gray squirrel out. It pooped on her shirt. Group 1 talked about bear scat and the bear was eating purple berries. I had fun seeing animals and I had fun.

Marionna
Bear tracks are cool to find. They will lead you to a bear. On the way to the forest you will find some signs. You'll see how big the bear feet are. The raccoon tracks and poop were cool, because you see what they ate and when you find what they eat, put out what they eat. They will eat it again. The squirrels are cool, too. Some are harmless. Some are not. The black flying squirrels are cool. There were pinecones. Our table was # 3. It was fun working with partners in the distance learning classroom yesterday.

Raven
On October 16, my class and I took a trip to the distance learning classroom and looked at a raccoon track, an owl pellet, and some pinecones and nuts eaten by squirrels. Also, we saw a gall ball and bear scat. The raccoon track was smooth. Then we asked some questions. Next, the lady got a snake out and it climbed on her and she put it away. Then she got a flying squirrel out and it pooped on her shirt and it went in her apron. She tried to get it out and it bit the lady from the museum. Finally, she put it away and got the poop off her apron and shirt. We discovered some more about a raccoon's footprint. I had fun because I discovered new things about animals.

Seth
I saw a bear scat with seeds all in it. There were different kinds of grass. They were yellow and green and I think brown. Some people had two nuts that got eaten by a squirrel. Other people had footprints and fossils from a kind of animal, but I don't know what kind of animal. There was the lady at the museum. She pulled out a kind of squirrel and it pooped on her shirt. It was time to go back to class. We said good-bye and lined up. I learned a lot of new things that day.

Sydney
First, we took our spots in the distance learning classroom. Next, a lady told us to get our some objects out of the basket. My group got some owl pellets. Owl pellets are bones and the other things that they can not digest. My group learned a lot and we are really looking forward to go back again. Then we put everything back and came back to the classroom. I had so much fun in the distance learning classroom.

Tyler
Animal tracks and rootprints that bears leave in soft soft soft soil. Signs are things like if a squirrel eats a pinecone, that means that there is a squirrel around or near you. What we had at our table today was scat and it had a lot of berries in it. It was from a bear. Also, it had a really small skull in the owl pellet. In the distance learning classroom, I had a lot of fun. It was fun learning about animals.