In the study of interactions among species, we talked about positive and negative interactions, and the wide range of ways in which species can interact.  Each student chose an interaction from a list we had made together, and drew their interpretation of that interaction on a pre-cut square of construction paper using colored markers.  Their drawings were imaginative, wonderful, adorable.

We arranged them in a quilt, and a couple of students made extras to fill up the pattern.  JJ and Gabby and I worked on the final gluing of the squares onto a big sheet of green paper after school; the quilt was later covered with clear contact paper by Kersten (Colby's mom).

After a stint in Ms. Agrelot's 3rd grade classroom, it now resides on a wall in my lab at FIU.  I use it as an example of a group activity in my Nature Teaching class.

I got the idea for this kind of activity from a book called "Creative Quilts for Classroom Use"