Education Resources

Higher education phenology course materials. Created by Steve Schudnick, Assistant Professor of Biology at Brookdale Community College, NJ.

This powerpoint was utilized in a 300-level teacher training class at the University of Arizona. It would also be appropriate for a teacher training workshop at a site or as an in-service activity at a school. The card game used at the beginning of the lesson was created by Alisa Hove and Sara Healy from the University of California, Santa Barbara's Phenological Stewardshop Program.

This lesson can be used as an introduction to the concept of observation. Observations skills are critical to the field of science among other things! Knowing how to pay attention to what's is going on around you is an important life skill. Taking the time to make observations is beneficial to health and wellness too. It also introduces the concept of phenology through the observation of plants and animals in a habitat garden.

This activity is meant as an introduction to phenology, the study of recurring plant and animal life cycle stages. Students make scientific observations of plants and record their observations and record them for Nature's Notebook.

This activity can be used as an introduction to the concept of phenology. The items on the phenology board are phenomena that participants have observed in nature, perhaps without even knowing their relationship to ecology, science, and climate, or their status as phenological events.

Create your own lesson for K-12 or Higher Education using Nature's Notebook as a framework for your lesson. Utilize the 5E Lesson Planning methodology to enhance student learning. Use the template to create your own activity.

This activity can be used as an introduction to the concept of phenology. It demonstrates the life cycle of a corn plant, a plant familiar to many, putting this plant into a new perspective.

This curriculum series supports student engagement in ecology-based citizen science and science practices: asking questions and defining problems, planning and carrying out investigations, and communicating findings

This activity can be used as an introduction to the concept of observation. Observations skills are critical to the field of science, among other things! Knowing how to pay attention to what's is going on around you is an important life skill.

Video about tracking the phenology of lilacs