project overview
Connecting Kids with Nature is a project aimed at establishing school based Junior Naturalists clubs, teaching kids how to create natural habitats around their school campuses, and connecting students to scientists and educators working at institutions such as museums and universities.
Members of the Moore Square Museums Magnet Middle School (M2M3) Junior Naturalist club have collaborated with scientists and educators from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife and Learning to conduct research on chimney swifts, Monarch butterflies, and to design and build study ponds and a butterfly garden on our urban campus. This website documents the last two years of our club’s progress in developing natural habitats and lesson plans that can be used in these newly created spaces. We hope it will help you do the same at your school.
site summary
Below is a listing of the sections of this site and a short summary of the materials they contain.
lessons
This page links to the available lesson plans as well as gives a short overview of what each is about. Relevant links and other information are contained on each of these pages as well as downloadable versions of each lesson.
objectives
This section provides information on which of the NC Course of Study and Computer Course of Study objectives are fullfilled by the lessons provided on this site.
about
A brief biographical section that provides background information on the author of these lessons as well as contact infromation should you wish to communicate with her.
links
A collection of all of the external links provided on this site as well as a few others that are useful to the completion of the supplied lesson plans.