Pond Succession

All wild areas on earth change from one habitat to another. Sometimes it occurs so slowly, people do not notice it. Project WILD Aquatic’s activity, “Pond Succession” lets students discover the changing habitat of an aquatic ecosystem. Make this activity more Iowa related by incorporating background information on Iowa's aquatic resource issues into your lesson.

Create a storyline on succession by using this activity with the following activities from the other Projects.

Project Learning Tree
Field, Forest, and Stream
Forest for the Trees
Nothing Succeeds Like Succession
Living With Fire

Project WILD
Fire Ecologies
Forest in a Jar
Time Lapse

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Book List
Grades PreK-2
Fleming, D. 1993. In the Small, Small Pond. Henry Holt and Co.

Grades 3-5
Crenson, V. 1995. Bay Shore Park: The Death and Life of an Amusement Park. W.H. Freeman & Company.
Jaspersohn, W. 1992. How the Forest Grew. HarperTrophy.
Newton, J.R. 1982. Forest Is Reborn. HarperCollins Publishers.
Silver, D. 1994. One Small Square: Pond. W.H. Freeman & Company.

Grades 6-8
Dixon, D. 2002. The Future is Wild. Firefly Books.
Mania, C., Maania, R. 1998. A Forest’s Life: From Meadow to Mature Woodland. Franklin Watts.
Owings, J. 1987. At the Edge of a Pond. Little, Brown & Company.
Reed, W. 1991. Succession: From Field to Forest. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.

Grades 9-12
Dixon, D. 2002. The Future is Wild. Firefly Books.