Second Semester at a glance...
Unit 1 - Nature Journaling Unit 2 - Plants Unit 3 - Mammals Unit 4 - Amphibians
Big Ideas:
Students will learn the skills of nature journaling and investigative questioning in order to make sense of the natural world around them.
Through the learning of scientific vocabulary and the visual arts, students will learn how to communicate what they observed in the world around them.
This science class will focus on teaching the skills of observation in the natural world as students learn to wonder about the environment around them. Students will learn to use nature journals to visually and verbally communicate their findings. This class will focus primarily on biology as well as some physical, earth and space science. The aim of this class is to grow students' ability to make skillful observations, connect their observations to scientific ideas, and communicate their knowledge through multiple means.
1st/2nd Grade
Students will learn to explore nature around them by noticing and accurately naming what they see.
3rd-4th Grade
Students will develop their ability to name things properly and record what they see through drawings.
5th-6th Grade
Students will learn to ask questions about what they see and record through numbers, words, and drawings.
7th-8th Grade
Students will use their ability to make observations and record what they see to ask quality questions that lead to further scientific inquiry and exploration.
1st/2nd - Fall, Harvest, and Animal Cycles
3rd/4th - Mammal Seasonal Adaptations
5ht/6th - Mammal Seasonal Adaptations
7th/8th - Black-Footed Ferret and Prairie Dogs Skit/Comic
Optional Homework - Work on your comics or the skit to present in class next week.
All Ages - Teaching resources for prairie and mammal nature journaling.
1st-4th - November nature studies
3rd-8th - Mice in the Prairie
1st- 6th - Colorado Parks and Wildlife Resources