Autumn Cattail Study

Cattails are really pretty neat.

We just finished up a fall study on them.

We'll be taking several trips back to our cattail

patch (?) each season to see what's happening.

We followed Barb's study:

Cattail Autumn Study at the Handbook of Nature Study Blog.

 

I read pages 500-503 in the Handbook of Nature Study

and the section on cattails in Discover Nature in Water and Wetlands.

 

Barb has a Cattail Seasonal Nature Study notebook page that we used to record our findings.

 

I had a spot

in mind, but was very surprised to find other areas where they grew that I never noticed before. We tried to find other living creatures, but there was not much to find. I imagine if the light had been right, we would have at least found spider webs and old nests.

 

We brought back a leaf and a cattail.

The cattail was a bit of an adventure,

as the tail (seeds) were coming off in puffs.

There were more than a few floating around the car.

 

When we got them home, we cut into the stem. Then we put it under the microscope and recorded a picture in our notebooks.

 

 

Then we put a seed under and drew it as well. 

 

 

Wishing you homeschool blessings,

Bethany