Nature Smarts Workbook, Ages 10-12: Learn about Wildlife, Geology, Earth Science, Habitats & More with Nature

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. AGES: 10 to 12 AUTHOR: Mass Audubon, a major conservation organisation for 125 years, is a nationally recognised leader in environmental education. SELLING POINTS: . The third book in the Nature Smarts series of nature education workbooks. The series provides practical, hands-on ways to interact with nature, encouraging children to learn from the natural world . Teaches key nature science skills like field biology, nature observation, and investigation to kids ages 10-12. The workbook reinforces and expands the nature literacy curriculum of middle schoolers with lessons on botany and plant reproduction; identifying invertebrates; bird behavior and anatomy; the life cycle of herptiles; phenology; and more . From the acclaimed nature educators at Mass Audubon. A nationally recognised leader in environmental education, Mass Audubon shares their nature curriculum in this lively learning activity book. Proceeds from sales of this workbook will provide scholarships to Mass Audubon summer programs with a goal of expanding inclusive and equitable access to nature for kids