Please share your inclement weather day gardening ideas. What do you do when the weather unexpectedly keeps you inside? How do you readjust at the last minute? Do you have a favorite activities or resources that you draw on?
I'll go first... I like to save a book in my back pocket for a rainy day. My favorite is read aloud is a picture book called Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story. After reading the kids take their existing garden journals (though you could make a quick one easily in class by folding and stapling a few sheets of paper together) and rotate around the classroom observing and drawing nature items that I've set out for them to see. You can wrap up with the Sci Show Kids video Be a Field Scientist (3 minutes long) to occupy the kids while you do a quick classroom clean up.
Please share your ideas on what to do when weather keeps you from going outside!
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[Lara] [Guerra]
[Science Teacher]
[The Hockaday School]
[Dallas] [Texas]
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lguerra@hockaday.org]
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