Backyard Nature Journal: Easy guided prompt field log for children to observe and explore their garden’s ecosystem | With room to write and draw, plus beginner ecology activities

Explore nature from your back yard. This journal helps you keep a field log of all the plants, insects and wildlife in your back yard, so you can observe, track and learn about the lifecycles and seasonal changes that happen there. It’s a fun and engaging way to discover the wonderful ecosystem that thrives just beyond your door. About this journal: Project based learning – this journal is a perfect companion for project based learning. It helps kids learn about the web of life and the cycle of seasons by observing nature at play in the back yard. Applied and outdoor science – this journal can be used as a companion activity book for studying wildlife, ecosystems and ecology, lifecycles, seasons and seasonality, nature cycles, and interactions among different living things. It develops skills such as observation and recording data in a fun, child-friendly way. Each journal entry features both writing and drawing pages to support both kids’ verbal and visual skills. Included in the back of the journal are interactive activities, such as lifecycle diagrams and a back yard ecosystem diagram, to help kids bring together in a meaningful way all that they have observed in their back yard over the seasons. The journal is laid out in an engaging, child-friendly way with bold graphics and simple instructions. Printed on white paper ideal for a variety of art media: pencils, crayons, markers and gel pens. Not recommended for paints – puckering will occur. Large format (8.5″ x 11″) offers plenty of writing and drawing room. Perfect for small hands. Included in this journal: Instructions on how to use the journal Create a map of your back yard 43 journal entries where kids can enter observations about plants, insects, birds and other animals, record the weather and the season, and draw their favorite observations. Each journal entry is spread across two pages, one for writing and one for drawing. Backyard ecology activities: drawing lifecycles of various living things, understanding how living things interact in the backyard ecosystem, and creating a diagram of the ecosystem and web of life found in the back yard