Focusing your time outside helps provide practice in looking and seeing, and increases the fun! Several examples of nature journaling and …
Environmental Education
Family Fun Connections: Shapes and Symmetry
Nature provides so many great ways to explore math concepts, and shapes and symmetry are a perfect place to start. After all, complex forms …
Connections: Explore a Pond, Part 2
Nature in the Middle Last week we set out in search of a local pond, equipped with some homemade tools to help us explore. The weather …
Family Fun Connections: Exploring Color
Nature is colorful year-round, if you know where and how to look. But there’s something about the deepening shades of green in late spring, …
Elementary Connections: Decomposers
How are nutrients recycled in nature? What plants, animals, and organisms help with this process? Where can we observe this in our own yards …
Connections: Exploring a Pond, Part 1
Typically, our spring program for middle schoolers at the Fields Pond Audubon Center involves some type of pond exploration. Exploring a …
Family Fun Connections: Neighborhood Trees
As we’ve gotten better acquainted with the trees we pass on our daily walks around the neighborhood, I love that they’re starting to stand …
Elementary Connections: Life Cycles in Spring
How do different plants or animals grow and develop? What stages of life can you see around you? Do young plants and animals always look …
Connections: The Darling Buds of May
Now that the temperature outdoors is moving up, it’s starting to feel like spring has really sprung! One of the things that I look forward …