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Nature Trail Guidelines - Basic rules for using the nature trail.
Nature Trail Checklist - A checklist to help coordinators with advance preparation for a trail walk.
Nature Trail Notes - A listing of items on the trail with background information and numeric key to locate the item as labeled on the trail.
Nature Trail Map - A map of labeled points of interest on the nature trail. The numbers on the map correspond to the numbers on the Nature Trail Notes.

Planning a Walk with a Theme

Spring on the Trail - Ideas to relate observation and interaction to signs of spring on the trail.

Habitat and Adaptation - Background information and interactive ideas to identify characteristics of the forest habitat and adaptations of plant and animals that live there.

What Did Early Settlers Experience - Background information and discussion points to lead your class of early settlers through the wilderness.

Forest Ecosystem, Erosion, and Succession - Background information about processes that shape a forest and looking for forest growth stages along the nature trail.

Activities for First Grade

Tic Tac Toe Nine blocks of items for young students to locate. The worksheet lists a pond which you can modify to simply be a water feature like a creek. The pictured nest can be for a bird or a squirrel.
Shape Walk A variety of shapes for students to carry or wear on yarn necklaces to match with items observed on the trail.

Activities for Second Grade

Forest Habitat A worksheet of items found in the forest habitat and that can be circled when observed.
Simple Food Chain A worksheet for students to list a variety of food chains that can be inferred from items observed and discussed on the nature trail.

Activities for Third Grade

NICHO: A game in a BINGO format to help students identify different producers,
consumers and decomposers in our environment. Photos using NICHO worksheet
Decomposing Log Study A worksheet for students to record observations found on a decomposing log that lines the nature trail.

Activities for Fourth Grade

Life in an Old Growth Tree A worksheet for students to record observations of the micro habitat of an old growth tree and its role in the forest ecosystem.

More Worksheets

For use in the gardens or field environments

Seed Dispersal A worksheet showing seeds dispersed by wind and gravity.

Seed Dispersal A worksheet showing seeds dispersed by animals

Insect Bingo A worksheet in BINGO format that shows various insects and insect stages and homes.

Field Habitat A worksheet of items found in the field habitat and that can be circled when observed.

Wildlife track identification

Wildlife Tracks Classifications A worksheet that shows tracks from various animals gait patterns.
Track Identification Page one of a worksheet for students to name the animal track shown.
Track Identification Page two of a worksheet for students to name the animal track shown.

Bird observation

Bird Behaviors A worksheet for students to identify observed bird behaviors.

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

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