Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introducing Nature Journal
Why do scientists use a nature journal? This activity is designed to introduce students to learning the routine for using a nature journal and practice using their observation skills and descriptive writing skills in their journal...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: See Our Progress [Pdf]
"See Our Progress" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students planting a prairie garden in a vacant lot close to the school. TV reporters interviewed the students and took pictures of the garden for the news that evening....