Explore all things nature by making projects about animals, plants, insects, and more.
Description: Students create wearable masks from recycled and natural materials. Project Ideas: Recycling, nature, camouflage for animal safety/protection, evolution Grade Level: Lower School Vocabulary: Camouflage, evolution, renewable resources Materials: Cardboard or heavy paper, scissors, pens, glue, items found in nature (leaves, nuts, twigs etc.). Strings or dowels. Directions: Hand each …
Lesson Students create butterflies out of non traditional materials. Project Ideas Compassion, Science, Intra-personal, Theatre, Body Kinesthetic. Recommended Ages Preschool Vocabulary Insects: animal with six legs and typically one or two pairs of wings Metamorphosis: process where an insect goes into its adult form Wings: part of some animals’ bodies …
Description:Bird made of paper tube, attached paper parts, and a plastic straw that allows wings to move. Objectives:An interactive way to teach awareness of bird (and other wildlife) migration patterns by allowing students to bring a functioning, handcrafted bird with them wherever they go, as they would a toy. Author: Blair …
Project Title: 3-D Sun Description: Students create 3-Dimensional suns with handprint cutouts representing solar flares. Author: Candice Grade level or Target Age Range: preschool to early elementary Historical Art Examples or References:Images of the sun and different solar anomalies Vocabulary: solar flares, solar system, gravity Materials: glue, colored construction paper, paper …
Description: Group project with each student in a group re-making a frame from a motion sequence of an animal moving. Each student-made frame will include drawings or text of the student’s favorite foods or activities as well as the diet and habits of the animal. Objectives: 1. Observation of animal motion …
project samples Egret Red Fox Description: Paper frames with negative space cut out in the shape of animas found at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Designs are added to frame and the frame then is layered on top of calendar nature images. Objectives: 1. Understanding of basic elements of design patterns. …
Description: Paper turtle shell or paper butterfly folded into sections for students’ reference drawings of plants at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge Objectives: 1. Familiarization and ability to identify some plants at JHNWR. 2. Knowledge of symmetry in organisms. 3. Both creative and scientific depiction of different plants and animals. Author: Blair …
project sample: Description: Learning the structures of wings and applying life lessons. A great project for responsibility and dependability, teaching students to complete a big task. Geese flying south for the winter depend on each other. They need each other in order to complete their goal. Objectives: 1. Appreciating birds in …
