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Outdoor Hour Challenge -Autumn Jewelweed Nature Study

Outdoor Hour Challenge

Jewelweed Nature Study

What makes the jewelweed plant so special? A hint is found in its other common name, touch-me-not. With just a touch, the jewelweed catapults its seeds out for dispersal! Would you like to see a video? Here is a link: Jewelweed Pods Exploding.

Use the lesson in the Handbook of Nature Study (Lesson 134) and the Outdoor Hour Challenge in the Autumn Ebook to learn about this interesting, beautiful, and useful plant that you may have growing in your area.

Outdoor Hour Challenge Jewelweed @handbookofnaturestudy. Use these ideas and links to look at a wildflower.View the original challenge here: Outdoor Hour Challenge – Jewelweed.

 

If you have access to the ebook, there are two notebook pages to choose from for your nature journal.

Jewelweed notebook page 1

Jewelweed notebook page 2

Alternate study: You can complete a Weeds and Seeds challenge instead.

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Sample to view: Outdoor Hour Challenge Autumn Nature Study 2015 Sample Pages

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Topics in this ebook include:

  • Swallows and swifts
  • Catfish
  • Jewelweed
  • Prickly lettuce
  • Cockroach
  • Field horsetail
  • Catbird
  • Calcite, limestone, marble
  • Chicken
  • Turkey
  • Hedgehog fungi
  • Sapsucker
  • Brooks

 

 

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If you have a membership, you may also look at additional wildflower ebooks available in the Ultimate Naturalist Library.

Outdoor Hour Challenge Wildflower Set 1 Ebook

OHC Wildflower Set 2 @handbookofnaturestudy

Outdoor Hour Challenge Wildflower 3 Covermaker

 

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Outdoor Hour Challenge – Jewelweed

Outdoor Hour Challenge Jewelweed @handbookofnaturestudy. Wildflower and weed nature study.

Outdoor Hour Challenge

Jewelweed

Inside Preparation Work:

Outdoor Hour Time:

  • Look for jewelweed in the shade and in damp places. Study the plant where you find it growing.
  • Here are a few things to look for: flowers, pods, galls on the leaves, leaf-miners.
  • As you walk outdoors, take note of other wildflowers and weeds that have gone to seed. Try to determine the means of seed dispersal and compare it to the jewelweeds explosive pods.
  • Look for any autumn blooming wildflowers to observe. Use a field guide or the internet to identify them.

Follow-Up Study:

  • Create a nature journal entry for the jewelweed or any other autumn blooming wildflower you observed during your outdoor time.  Make sure to use the questions in the lesson in the Handbook of Nature Study to make careful observations of the jewelweed.
  • Draw a detailed sketch of the jewelweed pod and explain its means of seed dispersal.
  • Advanced study: Create a nature journal entry that includes a description of the medicinal use of jewelweed.

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