Customizeable Lesson
In any season, our educators come to you for a program inside and out focused on your schoolyard habitat. Typical format includes short indoor introduction, followed by outdoor search of your schoolyard with a particular focus (see below). Students are surprised to discover details of plant/animal life in their familiar schoolyard setting. Each session is one hour.
Choose one or more from our schoolyard menu:
- Schoolyard Search: Birds
- Schoolyard search: Insects
- Schoolyard Search: Plants and Pollinators
- Schoolyard Search: Track and Sign
- Schoolyard Search: Trees
Curriculum Frameworks:
2-LS2-3 (MA) - Ecosystems--Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - how plant/animals depend on surroundings
2-LS4-1 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - observe/compare living things diff. env.
3-LS4-3 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - env. constraints on organisms survival
4-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - animal/plant, internal/external structures
5-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - plants use of air, water, energy
5-LS2-1 - Ecosystems--Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - movement of matter through food web