Shapes in Nature Materials included: • • • • • •
Glossary handout Foldable Instructions handout Spiderweb handout Tessellation leaves Bird Data handout String
Materials not included: • • • • • •
Paper Writing supplies Coloring supplies Tape Scissors Sticks (three per Girl Scout)
Welcome: Let’s make the Girl Scout sign and say the Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Law together. Would anyone like to lead it? Introduction and icebreaker: Today we’re going to find shapes in nature! How do you like to spend time outside? Steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Track natural objects. Graph natural objects. Make a spiderweb with symmetry. Explore tessellations. Collect data about birds.
Activity 1: Go on a scavenger hunt. Supplies: Foldable Instructions handout, paper, writing supplies, coloring supplies, scissors There are so many kinds of nature! There are animals. There are plants. There are insects. There are rocks. There are trees. There are lakes. All of these things are categories or groups of things made by nature. They’re natural objects. You can have categories within a group, too. You can have land snails, sea snails, big snails, and small snails. When you’re in nature, you can make tally marks or lines to track what you observe. Observation is looking at something very carefully. It’s also thinking about what you see. Observation helps us learn how nature and the world work.