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July 07th, 2013

7/7/2013

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"When we tug on a single thread in nature we find it attached to everything else." - John Muir
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On Friday, Ranger Ken and I led a group on the Ledges Ramble Junior Ranger Program. The Ritchie Ledges at CVNP is Ohio bedrock of Sharon Conglomerate.  "Braided streams swept the Sharon's sands and round quartz pebbles from the northeast into a great delta about 100 million years ago." (Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook, Platt C. V, Kent State University Press, 2006) 

Students were led on a scavenger hunt for secret passages, caves, and points of interests along the trail.  We sited evidence of sandstone honeycombs. Pictured above we found an interesting caterpillar.  It was a bright lime green about two inches long with small yellow spots.  This caterpillar will eventually turn into a moth, possibly the large Cercropia moth.  It was an exciting find since I am starting my butterfly lesson unit for the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center. (CVEEC)  These lessons will be used by my third grade class,  day programs for field trips at the CVEEC, plus posted at the National Park System web site for teacher resources.

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    Rosemary Krupar teaches 3rd grade at Crestwood Intermediate School.  She is working as a Teacher-Ranger-Teacher at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

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