6th-8th Grade
Observe and Explore
Build a Pop Can Stove
If you are interested in outdoor cooking, you may find the challenge of making your own transportable cooking stove fun! Check out this website for a quick “how to” and explore the web for other ideas.
Build A Plant Press
If you are interested in plants, leaves and starting a collection, building a plant press will certainly help! You can research simple to complex plant presses that you can easily build at home.
Sidewalk Chalk Step Up
Go beyond basic sidewalk chalk artwork and begin to use the creative side of nature to bring to life your work. Check out this video from Under The Radar Michigan to start your creative outlet!
Investigate and discover
Bug Hotel
If you are interested in insects, this may be a fun discovery DIY project. The challenge is to build a bug hotel in your backyard and investigate the changes and visitors! Check out this website to get you started.
Make A Kite
Instead of using a purchased kite for those windy days, see if you can build your own! Here is a site with simple instructions for the construction of a garbage bag kite.
Help Build Your Garden
Spend time with your household and prepare, research and plant a garden.
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Dinner Discussion
Can you share with me your plan of what you want to do?
What changes to the plan might you need to consider?
Can you create an alternate way to complete the task?
What don’t you know that might help you?
How will what you build make our backyard a better place?
Share with the world
Use #ODCbackyardcrusade to share your learning from this week on social media
Email a photo to bob@outdoordiscovery.org so we can share it with our community.
Ideas of What to Share:
Photos or videos of your DIY project would be awesome!
Beyond The Crusade
Make a weather station to collect weather data.
Start a composting station.
Continue to improve habitat based on previous crusades.
Continue and expand your work from previous crusades.