Lesson Plan

Explore With Your Senses: Field Trip Post-Site Part 1 - Grade K (Tennessee)

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Students explore life on a log as part of their Kindergarten field trip in the Smokies.
Students explore life on a log as part of their Kindergarten field trip in the Smokies.

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Grade Level:
Pre-Kindergarten-First Grade
Subject:
Biodiversity, Environment
Duration:
30 minutes
Group Size:
Up to 60
Setting:
outdoors
National/State Standards:
Science
Embedded Inquiry
• (GLE 0007.Inq.1)
• (GLE 007.T/E.K-2.1)
Interdependence
•(GLE 007.2.2)
Keywords:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, kindergarten, senses, animals, observation

Overview

Just as many exciting discoveries were made during the class trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, there are many places to explore within your school yard.

This unit is broken into three parts. The overall unit involves a trip to the park and is accompanied by one preparation activity and two wrap-up activities.  This is part 1 of the wrap up activity of the unit.

Objective(s)

1. Teach students that through careful observation, there are many things waiting to be discovered.

Background

Teachers coming on the accompanying field trip should download our complete field trip packet that includes all of the lessons: Explore With Your Senses Pre-Site lesson, information and directions about the field trip and Wrap-up part 1 and 2 post site lesson..

Download the full Explore With Your Senses Field Trip packet (includes Preparation and Wrap-up lessons).

Materials

This lesson includes a School Nature Detectives worksheet.

Procedure

Park Connections

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to over 17,000 known different types of animals and plants. Scientist are still learning about the different organisms that live in the park, sometimes by doing simple observation projects in small areas.

Vocabulary

observe, nature, soil

Last updated: April 14, 2015