The Nature of Your Backyard - STEAM/STEM Exploring & Designing at Home or School

This bundle gets your kids curious and outside doing hands-on science and design. Students take a "field-trip" around their school or home, exploring the ways it functions and then design a fantasy home, mimicking the functions of their own growing bean plants. They explore closely the traits and behaviors of plants and animals they find right outside and wonder how those things help them live in and change their environment. Your kids meet a young girl who tells how her own citizen-science research helped her overcome a terrible fear and improve her community. And, my desert-backyard inquiry video gets your kids critically thinking through the mysterious seasonal actions of a 200-year-old giant cactus and her community of wild animals; from blooming, pollinating, fruiting, seed spreading, decay, and sprouting. Includes:

• Detailed Lesson Plans
• Nature Journal Sheets
• Guided Presentations
• Original e-Storybook and Discussion Questions
• Original, Interactive, Inquiry-Based Video