{"id":1959,"date":"2020-04-20T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/?page_id=1959"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T08:43:39","slug":"the-wilderness-war-mnu-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-wilderness-war-mnu-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wilderness War MNU Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Wilderness War\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-wilderness-war-introduction\/\">The Wilderness War &#8211; Introduction<\/a>\u00a0 if you do not know or have a copy of the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Numeracy and Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Estimating and Counting<\/strong> <strong>in Your Outdoor Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Many Snails ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CfE Es and Os\u00a0 MNU 2 &#8211; 02a<\/p>\n<p>Calculate the <em>approximate<\/em> number of snails in your garden or local green space.\u00a0 It would be impossible to actually find and count every snail in your space.\u00a0 Scientists sometimes need to know\u00a0 to get an idea of how many creatures or plants are living in a particular area.\u00a0 The Wildlife Watch instruction sheet will help you\u00a0 calculate the <em>approximate <\/em>number of snails in your space by showing you how to count a sample of the snails and use that information to work out the total number <em>approximately<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/uploads\/sites\/11891\/2020\/04\/15134144\/WW-Mark-and-Recapture-Garden-Snails.pdf\">Wildlife Watch Mark and Recapture Garden Snails<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why would it be useful to know how many snails there are?<\/p>\n<p>Did you know snails leave a broken line of slime in their trails while slugs leave a continuous line of slime?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leaves on a Tree\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CfE Es and Os\u00a0 MNU 1 &#8211; 01a, 2-01a<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to count the total number of leaves on a tree?\u00a0The activity sheet from the Royal Horticultural Society\u00a0 School Gardening pages will take you through the seemingly impossible task of finding out how many leaves there are on a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The methods you will learn are used by scientists studying groups of objects in a large space (people at a football stadium, a colony of birds on a cliff face, the number of daises in a field&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>You will be counting in 10s, 20s, 50s\u00a0 and discovering techniques to arrive at a reasonable estimate when working with large numbers.\u00a0 \u00a0You can go\u00a0 on to\u00a0 take up the challenge of working out the area covered by a leaf and the weight of leaves on a single tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk\/resources\/activity\/estimating-environments\">RHS Estimating Environments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilderness War\u00a0 Read\u00a0 \u00a0The Wilderness War &#8211; Introduction\u00a0 if you do not know or have a copy of the book. Numeracy and Mathematics Estimating and Counting in Your Outdoor Space How Many Snails ? CfE Es and Os\u00a0 MNU 2 &#8211; 02a Calculate the approximate number of snails in your garden or local green &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-wilderness-war-mnu-activities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wilderness War MNU Activities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20798,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1959","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1959\/revisions\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}