Nature Journaling & notebook work

Today's Agenda:
Nature Journaling!
Notebook work with any remaining time

Reminders:
Tutorial Thursday & Friday
Notebooks due on Friday for 50 points!

Quarter 3 Notebook Contents:
-Semester 1 reflection writing
-American Eagle documentary worksheet
-Bald Eagle population graph
-Rachel Carson/DDT vocabulary terms
-Biography essay (environmentalist)
-Nature & the Brain
-Mindfulness & the Brain
-Nature Journaling

New right hand page (last of this unit)...

Heading: Nature Journaling
Learning Objective: I can participate in the Nature Journaling activity in order to explore the physical and mental benefits of nature and mindfulness.

nature journaling - the recording of observations and perceptions about the natural world around you 
(note: a personal journal records your feeling about yourself or others, while a nature journal records your response to and reflection of the natural world around you)
Notable scientists, naturalists, and philosophers such as Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and John Muir were all known for keeping journals of their observations, poems, and discoveries. Many of their famous literary works and groundbreaking observations were published from their journals. Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle was his field journal that detailed his observations of the ecology in the Galapagos Islands.

Today we're going to put what we've learned about the benefits of exposure to nature and practicing mindfulness into practice.

What you need: notebook, writing utensil, jacket
What you don't: electronic devices

5 minute free-write using your 5 senses to tune you in to the world around you
-sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell

Then you can draw or write about what you see in nature around you. If you need some direction you can make a sound map, sketch specific plants or birds you see, think about what this area may have looked like in the past, think about the changes happening in this spring season, write a poem about nature, do a leaf rubbing, ...it's up to you!

Examples HERE