Driven to Discover Citizen Science Curriculum Guide: Phenology and Nature's Notebook
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
Nature's Notebook Lesson Plan Template
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.
The Life of Corn
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.
Habitat Scavenger Hunt
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.
Making Basic Phenology Observations
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.
Observation Station
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.
Phenology Bingo
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.
Climate Drivers of Phenology (Project EDDIE) How will climate change impact phenology?
This activity explores the question: which species will be most affected by temperature changes, and how will changes in the phenology of one species affect its interaction with others as the climate warms. Created by Beatriz Villar, Northampton CC