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Curated OER

Finding Niches

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Schoolyard Field Guide

For Teachers 4th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trees of our Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Watchable Wildlife Checklist

For Students 2nd - 6th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Take a Dip: Be a Field Guide

For Teachers 8th - 10th
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.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Hass

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough site including a biography, articles both by and about Robert Hass, interviews, and texts of two of his poems.
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Student Produced Field Guide to Neighborhood Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Carleton College: Living in an Alkaline Environment Web Quest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Magical Creatures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Beetlemania: It's More Than John, Paul, Ringo and George

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Field Guide to the Aquatic Gardens at Forest Park

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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....
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EL Education

El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Field Guide to Local Amphibians

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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;...
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EL Education

El Education: Geology for Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide and Calendar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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EL Education

El Education: Kid's Guide to Buffalo & Erie Co. Botanical Gardens

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Kid's Guide to Rock Park

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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EL Education

El Education: Life in a Vernal Pool Field Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

El Education: Ocean Animals of Maine

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create a field guide demonstrating their research, observations, and illustrations of ocean animals in their region.
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EL Education

El Education: A Park Grows in Portland

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Pond Field Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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EL Education

El Education: Rmsel Birds: A Neighborhood Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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EL Education

El Education: San Diego: A Story of Exploitation and Restoration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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EL Education

El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
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...