Lower Elementary

• Owl study

• Ecosystem unit - made eco-systems out of liter bottles (w/ actual plants, snails, etc.)

• Leaf study - identifying trees by leaves and I-pads

• Solar unit - made solar ovens

• Nature scavenger hunts

• Journaling

Upper Elementary

• Observing and logging the effects of rain and flooding on various areas of our campus

• Making Native American dwellings

• Making animal footprints

• Bug Detectives

• Mapping the creek area

• Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt (finding examples of inclined planes, levers, pulleys, etc. outside)

• Nature journaling

• Exploring the creek

• Nature hikes/Kindergarten activities with Kindergarten Buddies

Middle School

• English-looking for and drawing different parts of speech we find in nature

• History-identified and sketched physical features and landforms found around the school

• Identifying & sketching human & natural systems found around school

• Science - modeling the vast distances of space (finding scale distance from Earth to the Sun in the parking lot)

• Balloon Rockets (form a hypothesis and then run experiments to see which type of balloon flies faster and farther)

• Students made sundials

    High School

• Nature sketches and reflections - the students turn a "scribble/line" into a nature sketch and then write about it

• Film Canister Rocket – Students mixed cornstarch, water, and Alka-Seltzer together in a film canister and made it explode!  

• Leaf Study with Coach Rogers

• Color Scavenger Hunt

• German scavenger Hunt with Mr. Vandegriff’s German class

• Creation Scavenger Hunt with Mr. Ange's Biology class