Image courtesy of ODFW
Biodiversity Murals
These murals were created in following the viewing of one of the following videos:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/wolves-yellowstone/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
Students worked together to create murals depicting the change in the ecosystem following the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone. Each mural is created with its own "flair".
3rd Grade Classroom Mural - North Fork Elementary School, Woodland, Wa. Teacher: Heidi Kleser
This cause/effect mural will evolve to a food web/energy transfer mural.
5th Grade Classroom Mural - Robert Gray Elementary School, Longview, Wa. Teacher: Heidi Kleser
Click on the images to bring up a slideshow of the following murals
Top mural depicts the Yellowstone ecosystem without wolves. The bottom mural depicts the Yellowstone ecosystem with wolves.
Yellowstone without wolves - "elk overgrazed", "mice and bunnies had no place to hide" "without beaver dams, fish and otters have no place to live".
Birds had more trees to nest in. Beavers had more wood to build dams and provide habitat for amphibians and fish.
Top mural depicts the Yellowstone ecosystem without wolves. The bottom mural depicts the Yellowstone ecosystem with wolves.
4th Grade Classroom Mural , Indian Hills Elementary School, Aloha, Or. Teacher: Yvonne Nelson
Left side - Yellowstone without wolves. Right side - Yellowstone with wolves
Songbirds returned because elk weren't eating so many leaves on trees.
Left side - Yellowstone without wolves. Right side - Yellowstone with wolves
5th Grade Classroom Mural - Robert Gray Elementary School, Longview, Wa. Teacher Heidi Kleser
Students worked cooperatively to create this collaged hand colored mural.
Students worked cooperatively to create this collaged hand colored mural.