In our nature club we learned about animal tracking. First, our group walked near the waters edge and looked for tracks. Unfortunately, it had rained a lot and it was really muddy. At least one of the children in our club walked thorough mud and their shoe got stuck. But, it made tracks easy to spot.
The children were told to mark the tracks that they find with a yellow flag. Then, they mixed plaster of paris and poured it into the print. Kaylee found a set of nice clear tracks.
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| Kaylee marked the tracks she found with a yellow flag. |
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| She found a nice set of tracks. |
After the plaster was mixed, Kaylee poured it into the tracks and then smoothed it out with a craft stick.
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| Pouring in the plaster. |
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| Smoothing the plaster. |
While the plaster dried we went inside for a lesson on tracking. We were given a guide to some of the most common tracks found in our area.
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| Trying to determine what happened by looking at the tracks. |
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| Kaylee's prints turned out very nice. We learned that these are raccoon tracks. |
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