Nature Smarts Workbooks
Nature Smarts Workbooks
Discover the wonders of water with outdoor and on-the-page activities, observations, and outdoor experiments about the states of water and the water cycle from the acclaimed nature educators at Mass Audubon.
Clouds, rain, puddles, ice, rivers, lakes, streams, fog, mist, and dew—water is all around us and it’s one of the world’s most important resources. In this special water-themed Nature Smarts Workbook, kids ages 4 to 6 learn all about how water connects every living thing. Each page builds curiosity and early science skills, nature observation, and investigation with on-the-page puzzles and outdoor learning activities. Adapted from Mass Audubon’s acclaimed nature camps, this workbook compliments early childhood curriculum focusing on the water cycle, weather, and the importance of water resources. Nature-loving kids go on a Water Scavenger Hunt to find water in their world, try a Melting Ice Race experiment, head outside for the Where Did the Puddle Go? evaporation experiment, and discover all the parts of the Water Cycle. Every chapter ends with an invitation to be a nature hero and help protect water sources in your community. Hands-on and engaging, this second Nature Smarts Workbook specifically written for 4- to 6-year-olds, will spark curiosity, wonder, and appreciation of water everywhere.
Every kid can be a naturalist-in-training with these outdoor and on-the-page activities, investigations, and puzzles from the acclaimed nature educators.
It’s fun to be nature smart! Nature Smarts Workbook, Ages 10-12 builds kids’ skills in field biology, nature observation, and investigation with interactive learning activities. Adapted from Mass Audubon’s acclaimed nature camps, this workbook enhances schools’ nature literacy curriculum with more in-depth lessons on plants, invertebrates, birds, habitats, herptiles, and mammals. Every section also ends with an invitation to be a community scientist and contribute data and observations to the wider effort to better understand our world. Perfect as a weekend enrichment activity, a workbook to stop the summer slide, and a hike or road trip take-along, nature-loving middle schoolers guide themselves through this introduction to key STEM concepts, such as habitat adaptation, plant reproduction, invertebrate anatomy, and phenology. Through outdoor observation experiments like completing a field survey and dissecting a flower, kids study nature wherever they are. And on rainy days, the on-the-page activities let the fun and learning continue with puzzles such as a bird anatomy crossword and games like matching the mammal to their tracks. Hands-on and engaging, this middle school addition to the Nature Smart series of workbooks gives kids the tools to become amateur naturalists and citizen scientists, going beyond the science material usually taught in school to encourage real investigations of the natural world from any backyard or city park.