Ernest Debs Regional Park (Yina Yang & Juliana Capra)
Reviewed by: Yina Yang, biology teacher at Alliance Gertz-Ressler High School
Juliana Capra, life science and math teacher at Foothills Middle School
Location: 4235 Monterey Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90032
GPS coordinates: 34.097232, -118.196613
Description:
Debs regional park is an open space nature reserve hosting many groves of woodlands and shrubs, which provide homes to numerous birds and animals. The attentive observer may chance a glimpse of a soaring Cooper’s or Redtailed Hawk, the Great Horned Owl, a desert cottontail, or the secretive broad-handed mole. With its expansive open space, and sounds and sights of nature, the park is an inspiring experience. It is also the home of baseball leagues, and a place for family gatherings, picnics, walking, camaraderie, and solitude among shaded trails. Vistas from the park’s high spots are breathtaking in their clarity of form, revealing the world around us.
Audience:
Life science students would benefit by a visit to Debs Regional Park because the park provides students the undiscovered parts of Los Angeles that is not concrete and city like. This opportunity provides inner city students the chance to explore the nature life that exist around them beyond the city life of cars, buildings, and concrete.
Science Concepts Addressed:
Human Activity: Tree tops are cut to accommodate telephone poles. Downtown LA can be seen from above the hill, which smog can be seen
Distribution of organisms: Trees and animals are distributed around the park in different forms: uniformed, clumped, or random
Erosion: Rain changes the slopes of the hills by washing the soil from its natural location
Ecological Relationships: Organisms depending on each other to survive such as the mushroom and the tree stump
Biodiversity: Many species are found in the area of the same family such as the pine trees
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