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The Western Red Lily

A Teaching Module for the Middle Years Science Curriculum

Rationale
Concept Web
Foundational Objectives
Factors of Scientific Literacy
Unit Grid
Lesson 1: History, Culture & Ecology of the WRL
Lesson 2: Exploring the WRL
Lesson 3: The WRL and the Foodweb
Lesson 4: Campaign of the Western Red Lily
Resources and Materials

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Resources and Materials

Images - used with permission

Image from Bonnie Lawrence and Anna Leighton
Canadian Heritage: Symbols of Canada (Provincial and Territorial Symbols) at
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/8/11/r11-204-e.html
http://www.kidzone.ws/geography/saskatchewan/lily2.htm
Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on Discovery School.com at http://school.discovery.com/clipart/category/scie4.html
Image from Bonnie Lawrence and Anna Leighton
Image from Tourism Saskatchewan at
http://www.sasktourism.com/images/content/
provlily_275x200.jpg

Image from Virtual Saskatchewan at http://www.virtualsk.com
Image from Bonnie Lawrence and Anna Leighton
Image from Bonnie Lawrence and Anna Leighton
Permission to use this photo has been granted by the George F. Ledingham Herbarium, Department of Biology, University of Regina
http://www.uregina.ca/biology/herb/sk_plants/
University of Saskatchewan logo from http://www.usask.ca
SaskPower logo from http://www.saskpower.com
A very special thankyou is extended to Bonnie Lawrence and Anna Leighton for the generous sharing of their time, expertise, and enthusiasm for the Western Red Lily in the creative process of this teaching module. 

References

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 Bell Museum of Natural History (2003).  Build a prairie.  Retrieved February 2004 from                     http://www.bellmuseum.org/mnideals/prairie/build/tb5.html

 British Ecological Society (2004).  Food chains and food webs.  Retrieved February 2004 from           http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/education/resources/curriculum/foodchains/game/

 Camp Silos.  Prairie fires.  Retrieved January 2004 from http://www.campsilos.org/mod1/students/index.shtml

 Climate Change Saskatchewan.  Retrieved February 2004 from   http://www.climatechangesask.ca/

 Envirolink.  Retrieved February 2004 from http://www.envirolink.org/

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 G. F. Ledingham Herbarium-Saskatchewan Native Plants (2003).  Retrieved January 2004 from          http://www.uregina.ca/biology/herb/sk_plants/

 Glacier National Park.  The only constant in the universe is change.  Retrieved February 2004 from      http://www.sd5.k12.mt.us/glaciereft/bottr3-8.htm

 Gould League (2002).  Australian grasslands foodweb.  Retrieved February 2004 from                          http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web/aus_web.html

 Howarth, David & Keane, Kahlee (1995).  The native garden: Propogating and wildcrafting native plants.  Saskatchewan: Root Woman and Dave.

 Ibid., (1995).  Native medicines.  Saskatchewan: Root Woman and Dave.

 Lawrence, Bonnie and Anna Leighton (1999).  Fire and feast: The western red lily. The Gardener for the Prairies, Winter 1999, 34-36.

 Ibid., (1998, December). Lilium philadelphicum: A description and observations from a Saskatchewan field study,  the western red lily project.  Canadian Prairie Lily Society Newsletter,  No. 84.

Ibid., (Winter, 1998). Western red lily.  Native Plant News, 3 (3) retrieved from                                http://www.npss.sk.ca/pdfs/news-winter1998.pdf

Mixed Grass Prairie Stewardship Program. (2004, January 2).  Queen of the  prairies.  Retrieved February 2004 from http://www.mts.net/~mxdgrass/wtp/lily.htm

Nature Saskatchewan. (2000).  The western red lily project.  Retrieved February 2004 from            http://www.naturesask.com/Red_Lilies/about_wrlp.html

 Roberts, Douglas A. Program Consultant, (1989). Science Directions 8.   Toronto John Wiley and Sons.

 Ibid., (1989). Science directions 8: Teacher resource package.  Toronto:  John Wiley and Sons.

Saskatchewan.  Retrieved March 2004 from http://www.kidzone.ws/geography/saskatchewan/

Saskatchewan Government Relations and Aboriginal Affairs.  Saskatchewan’s  provincial flower.  Retrieved February 2004 from http://www.iaa.gov.sk.ca/protocol/html/Emblems/flower.htm

SaskPower Shand Greenhouse.  Native plant program.  Retrieved February 2004 from                        http://www.shand.saskpower.com/greenhouse/plantapps/nativeplant/natgrassbroc.pdf

SaskPower Shand Greenhouse.  Western red lily centennial project.  Retrieved February 2004 from http://www.shand.saskpower.com/greenhouse/plantapps/redlily/projinfo.shtml

Science: A curriculum guide for the middle level. (1993). Saskatchewan Education, Training and Employment.

 Three Teachers Software. (2003).  Alien explorer.  Retrieved February 2004 from                        http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/topic4.html

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