Nature Detective
Come put your detective skills to the test by solving nature mysteries! Visit 9 different self-guided stations and complete the tasks in order to become an official Nature Detective!
Stations topics include: Mystery Sounds, Pond Habitats, Insect Who?, Up In a Tree, Animal Tracks, Bird Food Finding, Camouflage, Pond Striding, and Nature Mystery Museum.
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This experience is designed with elementary students in mind, but can be fun for people of any age! Stations have both written and picture directions. Most stations include an extension to increase understanding after the main task is complete.
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If you book this experience for your private group, we will bring everything to you, including clean up. Each session can accommodate a max of 36 students. This experience can be done inside or outside, but does include some messy aspects, including sand and water at some stations.
Standards:
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SC.5.L.17.1 - Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.
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SC.2.L.17.2 - Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.
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SC.2.L.17.1 - Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.
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SC.K2.CS-CS.1.4 - Solve questions individually and collaboratively using models.
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SC.1.N.1.1 - Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
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SC.2.N.1.1 - Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration and systematic observations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
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SC.K.L.14.3 - Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.