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Piñons Aplenty

Piñons Aplenty. Nevada Reading Week Conference February 28 – March1, 2014 Sara Marvin Laird. Notes. Natural History of the Piñon Pine. Single-Needle Piñon Pine Range. Colorado Plateau. Double-Needle Piñon Pine Range. Piñon Pine-Juniper Habitat. Piñion Pine and Juniper.

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Piñons Aplenty

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  1. Piñons Aplenty Nevada Reading Week Conference February 28 – March1, 2014 Sara Marvin Laird

  2. Notes

  3. Natural Historyof the Piñon Pine

  4. Single-Needle Piñon Pine Range Colorado Plateau

  5. Double-Needle Piñon Pine Range

  6. Piñon Pine-Juniper Habitat

  7. Piñion Pine and Juniper

  8. Utah Junipers grow with Piñons

  9. Male cones with pollen grains

  10. How Pine Pollen is Spread

  11. Pollen

  12. Immature Female Piñon Pine Cones

  13. Immature Female Piñon Pine Cone

  14. Mature Female Piñon Cone with Full and Empty Seed Coats

  15. Animals and the Piñon Pine

  16. Squirrel in tree eating Pine Nuts

  17. Squirrel feeding on the ground

  18. Clark’s Nutcracker and Piñon Jay

  19. Clark’s Nutcracker on Pinon Pine

  20. Clark’s Nutcracker filling throat pouch

  21. Expandable pouches in the throat

  22. Wood or Pack Rat

  23. Ancient Pack Rat Middens

  24. Human Historyof the Piñon Pine

  25. Gunny Sacks filled with Pine Nuts

  26. Winnowing Basket and Hulling Stone

  27. Winnowing Basket Roasting Piñon Cones over a fire

  28. Cracking open pine nuts

  29. Pine pitch (sticky sap) used to waterproof baskets

  30. Pine Nuts Saved the Donner Party

  31. Piñon pine trees were used in the early mining industry.

  32. Pine Seeds or Nuts

  33. Roasted pine nuts

  34. It’s time for tasting!

  35. What did you learn about the piñon pine? What questions do you still have?

  36. Teaching About the Piñon Pine Science Inquiry Chart and/or Observations Pictorial Input Chart Experiments Research Ideas Math Estimation Measurement Calculations Language Arts Poetry and Literature

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