SIMply Prairie - Studying a Real Prairie

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Developing Your Skills

• Read this background information. Find out what you can learn from a quadrat study.
• Practice a quadrat study.
• Identify prairie grasses and forbs.

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Gathering and Reporting Data from Your Prairie Quadrat Study

• Collect your data using your grid and onsite data collection sheet.
• Enter your data.

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Compiling the Data for Your Study

Check out the summary of your study. Find the percentage of each plant found in a prairie quadrat, a square meter of prairie. Make graphs of the data. Plants are divided into forbs and grasses.

Find your study in the list of current studies to get its data summary.

Authors: Bill Fraccaro, Johnson School, Wheaton, IL; Larry Cwik and Pat Franzen, Madison Junior High School, Naperville, IL; and Bernie Jokiel, Gary D. Jewel Middle School, North Aurora, IL.
Created for Illinois Ecosystem Project sponsored by Community Unit School District 200, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office and Friends of Fermilab and supported by the Illinois State Board of Education and the US Department of Energy.

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