This thinking routine from Harvard’s Project Zero teaches observation, interpretation, and inquiry.
An outdoor adventure provides vocabulary scaffolding that becomes a foundation for expressive writing. The slides introduce the worksheets.
This WS supports the scavenger walk.
This WS supports a culminating activity after the scavenger walk.
A thinking routine adaptation of See, Think, Wonder that encourages observation, inference, and most importantly that new information can change our understanding.
Let students create their own, or provide ‘prompts’ as a morning message challenge.
Using nature as an “algorhythm,” find out how to determine the temperature by counting cricket chirps!
Students can explore natural resources, erosion, community environmental health, and writing that deepens understanding of incorporating evidence and persuasion for an audience. The lesson/activity helps students visualize the paths of water and includes links to more teaching slides and a video.
This outdoor lesson ties science, health, and math together (standards aligned for K, but all ages love this lesson). The Big Idea of Change Over Time is embedded as children explore patterns, symmetry, and impermanence while gaining the opportunity to gather natural ephemera.
Using nature as a backdrop, students explore patterns and how those patterns are evident everywhere around us. Students will use motif, color, balance, symmetry and geometry to create solo or even group works of art.
