Learning from the Glades

The cedar glades can serve as a natural laboratory to teach many branches of science.

  • Several parks in the central basin have naturalists who lead field trips into the glades.
    • Stones River Battlefield
    • Long Hunter State Park
    • Cedars of Lebanon State Park
  • The Center for Cedar Glades Studies has assembled a group of local teachers who regularly teach science out of the cedar glades and are publishing here lessons which are described below.

Terri Hogan, Stones River National Battlefield ecologist, conducting a workshop on the glades for Rutherford County teachers.
photo by Nancy Stetten

Who we are:

Elementary

Merrie Lasater
teacher at ...
Middle School

Melissa Turentine
teacher at
High School

Kim Hinton
teacher at

University

Kim Sadler
teacher at MTSU Department of Biology

The exercises listed below are in PDF format.

Elementary Exercises Middle/High School Exercises
  • Adopt a Plant
  • Art on the Glades
  • Tracks on the Glades
  • Web of Life
  • Food Web Interaction ( Foldable Food Web)
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Limiting Factors of the Food Web
  • Role Play
  • Parts of a Flower
  • Classification by Genus & Species
  • Commensalism, Parasitism & Mutualism
  • Asexual Reproduction Lesson
  • Earth's Building Processes
  • Prairie Warbler Survival Lesson (Parasitism)
  • A mini-Ecosystem (Cedar Glade)
  • Predator-Prey List (Selected animals-teacher info list)
  • Decomposer List
  • Food Web Activity
  • Temperature Graph

Resources