Second Semester at a glance...
Unit 1 - Nature Journaling Unit 2 - Plants Unit 3 - Mammals Unit 4 - Amphibians
Big Ideas:
Students will explore through nature journaling and investigative questioning structures and functions 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
3rd/4th
5ht/6th
7th/8th - September Page
1st/2nd - Journaling at every age
3rd/4th - Journaling at every age
5th/6th - Journaling at every age and Nature Journal Prompts
7th/8th - Journaling at every age and Nature Journal Prompts