Students walking up a hill in the forest with backpacks.

Create Your Own Field Guide

Overview

In this activity, students will create a field guide so that they can record date over time and practice their observation skills.

Activity Type:

Lesson

Target Grade Level:

3-5, 6-8, 9-12, K-2

Estimated Duration:

Varies

Topics:

Desert Regional Impacts

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

K-ESS2-1: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time

K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive.

2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change.

3-ESS2-2: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment.

MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.