Curated OER
Finding Niches
In this niches worksheet, students will observe 2 different bird species around their home or school and complete a chart comparing the birds' food, home, habits, and description.
Curated OER
Schoolyard Field Guide
Fourth graders observe, plan, research, and create a field guide for the trees that are in their schoolyard. In this trees lesson plan, 4th graders make careful observations of what they see around their school and create a guide.
Curated OER
Trees of our Forests
Young scholars use a field guide in order to identify trees. In this trees lesson plan, students classify the trees that they identify based on their relationships. Young scholars take a trip outdoors to look at trees.
Curated OER
Watchable Wildlife Checklist
In this wildlife activity, students will read over a list of 28 native animal species, their needs, and interesting characteristics. This list can be used as a checklist when out on a hike or in the school yard to identify common wildlife.
Curated OER
Take a Dip: Be a Field Guide
Students create a Visitor's Field Guide for the local area in order to enhance the understanding of natural features of the area for those who may be unfamiliar with the area.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Hass
A very thorough site including a biography, articles both by and about Robert Hass, interviews, and texts of two of his poems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: A Student Produced Field Guide to Neighborhood Trees
During this project, students will be working cooperatively to create a field guide of trees in the neighborhood near the school. Students will make observations of trees near the school. They will then learn about tree anatomy and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Carleton College: Living in an Alkaline Environment Web Quest
Create a field guide for organisms living around Mono Lake (an alkaline environment) in this WebQuest. The process for completing this field guide is well laid out along with available resources. There is also a teacher page that gives...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Magical Creatures
HELP! Many magical creatures are still not in our Magical Creature Field Guide! We don't know who they are, where they live, what they eat, what their magical abilities are or even what they look like! It is your job to help create these...
EL Education
El Education: Beetlemania: It's More Than John, Paul, Ringo and George
Beetlemania is a field guide to the Rocky Mountain Beetle Infestation in the Colorado Forest Ecosystem written and illustrated by 5th and 6th grade students at Explore Elementary in Thornton, CO. This extensive field guide includes...
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to the Aquatic Gardens at Forest Park
3rd grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts created this field guide as part of a learning expedition on ecosystems and pond life. Students did fieldwork in the city park and worked with local experts, closely examining the ponds....
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Local Amphibians
The Field Guide to Local Amphibians was created by 4th graders in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. It was created as one aspect of a three-month Learning Expedition on amphibians. Students collected town data for a statewide amphibian census;...
EL Education
El Education: Geology for Kids
4th grade students from the Swift River Elementary School in New Salem, Massachusetts, created this field guide to local geology, featuring "Things to Know" and "Places to Visit", as part of a study of local geology and rocks and...
EL Education
El Education: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide and Calendar
Students study wildlife at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and then work together to create a calendar field guide with digital photographs and information about various forms of wildlife found in the refuge.
EL Education
El Education: Kid's Guide to Buffalo & Erie Co. Botanical Gardens
Elementary students at the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, created this brochure of their local botanical gardens to be used by other students. Each student selected a specific plant to research, photograph, and write...
EL Education
El Education: Kid's Guide to Rock Park
Students research different types of rocks and different ways of identifying rocks, then create a field guide for younger students attending a museum called The Rock Park.
EL Education
El Education: Life in a Vernal Pool Field Guide
After researching and observing life in a local vernal pool, students write and illustrate a field guide including digital photographs and original water colors.
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El Education: Ocean Animals of Maine
Students create a field guide demonstrating their research, observations, and illustrations of ocean animals in their region.
EL Education
El Education: A Park Grows in Portland
This field guide was a cross curricular project created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine. Students engaged in multiple fieldwork visits to the Deering Park (across the street), during which they observed trees, recording with...
EL Education
El Education: Pond Field Guide
Students use digital photographs and research to create a two-page field guide to be used as a reference sheet when completing field observations at the pond next to the school.
EL Education
El Education: Rmsel Birds: A Neighborhood Guide
Students complete fieldwork and research on different types of local birds to complete a field guide. The guide provides information and illustrations for each bird along with a focus on the type of feet the birds have and the various...
EL Education
El Education: San Diego: A Story of Exploitation and Restoration
Students work together with college professors, museum experts, naturalists, historians, and industry leaders to research and create a field guide indicating the effects of growth and changes in hunting and fishing industries in San...
EL Education
El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...