Elementary Leaf Project for Autumn

Directions:
Find different leaves from around your house. Take pictures of the leaves you collect. When finished collecting the different leaves you will use within your project, use the Leaf Classifier on the given website to classify your leaves. After discovering what types of leaves you collected, create a blog describing the different leaves. Show a picture of your collected leaves, explain the type of tree it came from, and the shape of the leaf.

Leaf Classifier: http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/key/intro.htm

My Example Project:

Brittany's Autumn Leaf Project

Leaf #1: Sassafras

This leaf is a simple leaf. It is a Sassafras leaf. Sassafras tree’s have three different types of leaves on them. A fun fact is that they smell like fruit loops when you crumple them.

Leaf #2: Sassafras

This leaf is also a simple leaf. It is a Sassafras too and is shaped like a mitten. The mitten shape makes it easy to determine the type of tree it is because it is so unique.

Leaf #3: White Oak

This leaf ia a simple leaf. It comes from an Oak tree. The many edges indicate that it comes from a White Oak. The leaf is rather large.

Leaf #4: Dogwood

This leaf is a simple leaf. It comes from a Dagwood. The leaf is very round which can be a characteristic making it easy to tell the type of tree it comes from because a perfectly round leaf is very unique.

Leaf #5: Sweetgum

This is a simple leaf. It comes from a Sweetgum tree. This leaf has unique characteristics in that it has five sharp points coming out from the center of the leaf. This can be used to characterize this leaf because five points is different than the other characteristics of leaves.

Leaf #6: Chestnut

This leaf is a simple leaf. It comes from a Chestnut tree. The shape of the leaf is different than any of the others in that it has an oval shape with serrated edges. The serrated edges can be used as a determining characteristic because it is unique from other leaves.

Leaf #7: Black Oak

This leaf is a simple leaf. It comes from the Black Oak. The shape of this leaf could be confused with the shape of a Dogwood leaf because they have similar shaping. What makes this leaf unique from that of a Dagwood is its pointy edges. Unlike the Dagwood, the Black Oak has sharp edges instead of rounded edges.