Noticing Nature with Tiny Lee - K-8 Ed Consulting

I have started a you tube channel with a playlist; Noticing Nature with Tiny Lee. https://youtube.com/@leegruss-llc?feature=shared

The Noticing Nature videos are targeted at students in grades pre k – 3rd grade and are set up to elicit student ideas with questions and observations. In each video students are encouraged to Notice, Think, and Wonder about Nature.

Videos can be used in the classroom as an engagement before a similar activity or as a way to get students to start talking and asking their own questions. Problem solving and investigations in science start with observations and questions. It is important that students start to do this naturally in their own worlds. Giving our students time to Notice is the beginning of the scientific process for problem solving. The answers will come, but the process of investigating begins with observations, questioning, and predictions.

A thought to puzzle over…

A phrase, from Journalist Richard Louv, that is floating around is “Nature Deficit Disorder”. “NDD is a metaphor from for the idea that people. especially children, who spend less time in nature may experience a range of physical , psychological, and behavioral problems.” Do you think this is true of any of the students in your classroom? What can you do to add Nature into their day?

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