Conclusion Introduction Welcome to the forests of Indiana. Look around and get comfortable. You will be here for a while. You are part of a team of four newly hired botanists for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
People have a lot of questions about leaves and the trees they come from.
Your job is to produce a set of fact cards. Visitors walking in the state forests of Indiana will be able to use these cards to identify the most common deciduous trees of Indiana by their leaves. The leaf characteristics fact cards must include drawings of important characterics in the identification of leaves. The tree identification fact cards must include the name of the tree, type, shape, arrangement and margins of the most common leaves in Indiana. The class will be divided into groups of 4.