Symbiosis Home Lab
Do you want to learn about symbiosis but can't go to Joshua Tree NP?
🙌 Regardless of where you are, learning can still be hands on and fun!
⭐️ The more time I spend outdoors I'm amazed about how many opportunities I've found to tie in this symbiosis lesson!
🦏 I've taken my kids to the zoo and they'll ask why the rhinos don't have ospreys with them. This gave me a great chance to discuss with them the need (symbiotic relationship) they have in the wild verses the role of zoo keepers in a zoo.
🐝 If you travel anywhere in the Mojave Desert you will see Joshua Trees, or you can tie the lesson in when you see a bee on a flower or a dog scratching itself. Your learning opportunities are endless! 🐕
How would you tie this symbiosis lesson into your life?!
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My passion project has come to life!
I'll admit I'm a total nerd that even as an adult loves to learn and understand the world around me. I also love travel and exploring.
❤️ So yes homeschooling is my jam and I share this love with my entire family!
Now I'm sharing it with you! A resource that gives you what to do and what to teach your kids when you explore!
This weeks Explorer......Joshua Tree NP
⭐️ Tips, Hits, and background for traveling to Joshua Tree
⭐️ Learning Lesson: An easy to learn, symbiosis lesson.
⭐️ Learning Activity: Play a game or do an activity to help make the learning topic come to life.
⭐️ Color and Learn pages. Make learning fun by coloring the creatures and landscape of each location and reading the fun little factoids about them.
⭐️ Word Hunt
⭐️ Scavenger Hunt Foldable Booklet with 8 pictures and descriptions so you can take it on the go.
⭐️ Reflection Page to write or sketch things you saw and learned. Includes some thought provoking prompts.
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1) Joshua Tree 12 page PDF or
2) inside the "California Desert Adventures" book
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Top 10 California Desert Hits
Top 10 desert locations that rock! 🎵
⭐️ 10 Red Rock Canyon SP
⭐️ 9 Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
⭐️ 8 Ladder Canyon
⭐️ 7 Indian Canyons
⭐️ 6 Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
⭐️ 5 Salton Sea SRA
⭐️ 4 Anza Borrego SP
⭐️ 3 Living Desert Zoo
⭐️ 2 Joshua Tree NP
⭐️ 1 Death Valley NP
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California Desert Adventures
It's finally happening. Years of hard work, travel and learning all coming together!
⭐️ For years we traveled as a family asking the same question everywhere we went...... What can we learn from here, what makes this place so special? (mind blown emoji)
⭐️ Every time we reached a location I would research and create lessons and activities for my kids to help them connect with each place we visited. It was my not so secret obsession.
⭐️ The Youtopo Explorers: California Desert Adventures is just that, all that we've learned packaged nicely so other people can travel, teach their kids and create lasting memories without having to do hours of research!
⭐️ Each week we'll be highlighting one new location, tips, learning content, and activity from our books starting with the California Desert Adventures! Youtopo.com
❤️ Joshua Tree NP is Coming Tomorrow!
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Are you planning a visit to Devils Postpile? If so save this post!
This amazing place definitely surprised us! We did so much swimming! The Postpile itself was impressive, but getting to swim at Rainbow Falls was incredible! Then we made a stop at Sotcher Lake because my inlaws recommended it and were surprised to find areas of pumice rock. Pumice floats! So we spent a good chunk of time throwing pumice in the lake them swimming out to get it! It was such a fun day!
Things you need to do:
Admire Devils Postpile, .4 mile one way (check out the formation from above and below)
💦 Hike to Rainbow Falls from Devils Postpile, 2 miles to the falls.
💦 Swim in the pool and river at the base of rainbow falls. Hike 1.3 miles back to shuttle stop #9 afterwards.
💦 Walk the Sotcher Lake Nature Trail, 1.2 miles trail going around the left side of the lake. The full loop takes you up a tall hill. Just walk the part by the lake.
💦 Swim or play in the water at Sotcher Lake to cool off after all your hiking.
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The man behind the camera! Happy Fathers Day!
⭐️ Who would have thought that life could be such an adventure. I knew our life would be unique, but thanks to David it's so much more! He's fun, adventurous, my rock, and above all else an incredible father that loves his girls.
⭐️ To all you great fathers out there, keep showing your incredible kiddos how much they are loved. You are amazing! We appreciate all that you do.
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Have you ever seen an Albino Redwood? These trees are rare and also considered a parasite. Look at the leaves, they look just like redwood leaves just in white!
🌲 An Albino Redwood is a redwood tree that cannot produce chlorophyll. Without chlorophyll it can't make its own food (photosynthesis), so instead its roots take sugar from a host redwood tree that it lives on.
We've seen two in our travels one in Calaveras State Park and the other in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
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💦 Mount Rainier is home to over 150 waterfalls, in which only about 23 are named and easily accessible to the public. No matter which area of the park you decide to visit you are sure to see a waterfall, or two, or three, or more!
💦 We went in the spring when there was still a lot of snow and a lot of closed roads, and we were still able to easily see two waterfalls!
💦 This clip is of Christine Falls just off the side of the road!
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What do you ❤️ about the Channel Islands? Is is the curious little foxes? The giant sized ravens? The bright orange giribaldi? The breathtaking views? Or, the pods of dolphins guiding you to the island?
❤️❤️Tell me your Favorites !! ❤️❤️
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🤩 The Salton Sea Recreation Area offers many unique experiences for families of all ages! For a rockin' good time at The Salton Sea keep an open and adventurous mind as you check out our top 5 things to do.
When you explore the Salton Sea make sure to bring enough food and water for the whole day trip. There isn't anywhere for you to go out and eat along this area of the Salton Sea.
🦆 Walk among the art structures at Bombay Beach. Drive around the outer homes to find the airplane!
🦆 Walk around Salvation Mountain.
🦆 Hike Rock Hill Butte, (a small volcano) 2 miles round trip.
🦆 Go birding. Watch out for burrowing owls peeking out of artificial burrows and pipes at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge.
🦆See the fishbone sand at Salton Sea Recreation Area
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See the Grand Canyon and teach your kids? Sounds crazy right? Not at all!
Take your family on the 1.2 mile Trail of Time at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. This geological trail tells the story of the formation of all the rocks that make up the Grand Canyon. It has samples of all the rock layers and incredible views the entire hike! Youtopo.com
Here's our 5 Fav things to do with kids at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon!
🌞 Trail of Time- 1.2 mile geology trail
🌞 Powell Point Viewpoint- memorial to first expeditions to the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell.
🌞 Hopi Point- great view of the Colorado River
🌞 Mather Point and Mather Point Amphitheater by the Visitor Center
🌞 Part of the Bright Angel Trail 1.8 mile round trip to the second tunnel.
Happy National Park Week!
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