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No Child Left Inside
Proposed Curriculum
Grade 1
Sort Natural
Objects.
Group natural objects by kind, shape, color, or size
(or do this as a group activity). Give the students a
task, such as sequencing the objects or making patterns
with them, and then ask a buddy to guess how the pieces
were sorted. Ask the students where these things came
from and, if they were pieces in a puzzle, what would
that puzzle be? For example, a shell is part of a
seashore picture and a twig is part of a forest picture.
Listen to Stories
Let’s Go see It!
Field trip to Arboretum to identify natural objects
including various rocks, seeds, leaves, shells, etc.
Grade 2
Start a Nature Journal
Make Observations.
Explain how to carefully and quietly observe nature and
record things in a journal with writings and drawings.
Prepare the students for observing, writing, and
sketching living things. Ask the students what kinds of
life they think they will see outside.
Let’s Go See It!
Field trip to the Arboretum to make observations and
recordings. Upon returning, ask for volunteers to share
from their work and see if they can persuade their peers
to make a positive difference in the area they observed.
Write in Journals
Grade 3
Continue Nature Journal
Study Arbor Day
Let’s Go See It!
Field trip to Arboretum
to identify trees.
Write in Journals
Grade 4
Read about
famous environmentalists
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Mapping.
Find South Jersey on map and note wetlands, forests,
rivers, etc
Let’s Go See It!
Field trip to
Arboretum. Draw basic map noting meadows, wetlands,
forests.
Write in Journals
Grade 5
Speak out for
the environment at School Assembly
Write about
nature persuasively for newspaper. Identify issues.
Talk about different perspectives.
Let’s Go See It!
Field trip to Arboretum to begin orienteering,
surveying, use map and compass.
Write in Journals
Grade 6
Participate
in a simulated debate about environmental issues
Develop
personal responsibility on a local issue
Let’s Go See It!
Field Trip to Arboretum, make a detailed map, find an
object using compass and clues, survey area.
Write in Journals
Older grades can develop their own environmental lesson
plans, mentor younger grades, and continue community
activism.
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