Lesson Plan

Nature Journaling: Experience the Outdoors Through Writing and Drawing

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Step into the great outdoors and develop young scientists' skills of observation with a nature journaling lesson. Given a specific focus or goal, children practice making and recording observations of nature through written descriptions and detailed sketches. Once young scholars become comfortable with this activity, it can be repeated as a supplement to elementary science units on just about any topic.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Pros
  • A list of tips are provided for adapting the lesson to meet the needs of all children
  • Includes an activity that extends learning about descriptive writing
  • Provides a suggestion for a related service learning project
  • A rubric is included for for assessing nature journals
Cons
  • Additional scaffolding may be necessary to support all children with recording their observations of nature