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Big Backyard Summer Family Activities!
Grade 4 students will engage with nature practicing their noticing and wonderings skills and make connections to their own lives. Students will connect to investigations of thermal (heat) energy transfer as they consider ways animals conserve and prevent energy loss in our cold climate. Students will explore the ways organisms communication with each other and how it benefits them.
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Note: All adults who work with children in the Big Backyard program must have a valid CORI . Please click here to fill out a CORI form. CORI checks are good for 3 years.
Volunteer Walk Information
Volunteer Walk Information
Read the guide before your walk to familiarize yourself with areas to visit and activities.
Volunteers watch a short on-demand 15 minute video, before the walk, to learn an overall approach to guiding children outdoors as well as modeling of the activities on each specific walk.
Fall Walk
Fall Walk
Doing What Scientists Do
Students will consider what it means to be a good observer, engage with nature through the science practices, connect to their own lived experiences, and identify as scientists.
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Winter Walk
Winter Walk
Coping with the Cold - Animal Adaptations
Students will learn about local animals and the different structural and behavioral adaptations that help them survive in winter.
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Spring Walk
Spring Walk
Animal Communication
Students will explore how animals communicate by investigating how animals, including humans, use their internal and external structures to sense the world.
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