Naturalist

Outdoor Group

  Do Four of These:

1. Keep an "insect zoo" that you have collected. You might have crickets, ants, or grasshoppers. Study them for a while then release them.
2. Set up an aquarium or terrarium. Keep it for at least a month.
3. Visit a museum of natural history, nature center, or zoo with your family, den, or pack. Tell what you saw.
4. Watch for birds in your yard, neighborhood, or town for one week. Identify the birds you see and write down where and when you saw them.
5. Learn about the bird flyways closest to your home. Find out which birds use these flyways.
6. Learn to identify poisonous plants and venomous reptiles found in your area.
7. Watch six wild animals (snakes, turtles, fish, birds, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind of place (forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell what they were doing.
8. Give examples of:
       A producer, a consumer, and a decomposer in the food chain of an ecosystem
       One way humans have changed the balance of nature
       How you can help protect the balance of nature