Environment Laboratory

Are you looking for ways to encourage your children to respect nature? Are you looking for ways to get your kids outdoors? My Nature Journal encourages exploration, investigation, and creativity. Nature Tips are given to help studnets learn how to respoct the outdoors. There's a "Quick Trip Log" (not the gas station) where students can keep track of all their journeys. There are two pages for every outing to allow students to reflect on what they see, hear, feel and smell. There are multiple Scavenger Hunts that can be used to look for different things on every outing.

There's so much here for children to do while they are outdoors!

Are you looking for a hands-on, inquiry-based lab for your middle school students that covers watersheds and human impact on water supply? Then check this out! In this lab, students will crumple a piece of paper, use markers to draw various landmarks and landforms on the paper, and then spray water over the paper to simulate rain flowing through a watershed. Students will be able to observe how water travels from areas of higher elevation to lower elevation due to gravity. Additionally, students will learn how humans impact the environment by leaving pollution on Earth's surface, which gets transported into the water supply. This lab also includes detailed step by step instructions and post-lab questions.

An answer key is included.

Materials needed: markers, plain paper, spray bottles, and water.

Your students will:

• Apply knowledge
• Practice concepts 
• Use observation skills
• Demonstrate understanding
• Analyze data
• Apply key terms and definitions
• Engage in visual and hands-on learning
• Explore real world problems