No Child Left Inside

ISTE Standards
1.a Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and
inventiveness.
Student Objective
Students will be able to work as a group and create ideas based off
observations they made in nature along their walk. They will come up
with representations and project them on a screen to show the rest of
the class.
Assessment
Use informal assessment such as anecdotal records, which will help me
monitor how much each child has contributed to their project.
Material/Resources
Picture of different object to look for in nature.
Ex. Plants, leaves, grass, rocks, birds, animals
Map of where to look for different objects in nature.
The activity will take place outside for the observations and then back
inside where the information will be projected up for all the members in
the class to see.
Safety
Make sure the outdoor space is clean and safe for the children to be in.
Make sure the area is fenced in and the children are in one around to
keep watch.
Bring a whistle outside to help round up the children at the end of the
activity.
Instruction
-Explain to the students that we are going to be doing a lesson outside.
We are going to be taking a nature walk looking for different animals,
and plants that we have read about in books.
-On our nature walk we are going to be drawing different pictures of
the animals or plants that we find.
-after our adventure we are going to sit in a group circle and talk about
the pictures we drew and what features we found and see if any of the
information we found matches the information we learned when we did
research on previous days.
-Then we will come in and project the pictures on the projector to show
all the students the drawings.
Make sure the outside space is wheelchair assessable to provide the
best lesson for all your students.