The Forest of S.T. Shrew
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Students take a “shrew’s-eye-view” of life in the woods to gain an understanding of the variety of organisms that live in forests and to learn how living and non-living things interact.
Learner Objectives
- Identify the main points of a short story about forest organisms.
- Name at least five organisms that may be found in a forest ecosystem.
- Describe the interactions of living and nonliving things in a forest.
- Identify ways that organisms living in a forest ecosystem get the food energy they need to live.
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