Big Backyard Resources

Useful Web Links


General

Town wide Big Backyard Website

§        General information on Big Backyard including curriculum organization, sample walk guides and forms.

Big Backyard Nature Collection

§       Description of the BBY collection of objects from nature.  Teachers and parents are welcome to use in the classroom

Inquiry based Science

§         What do we mean by Inquiry?

§         What does Inquiry based science look like?

Nature and the Environment

§         Hastings Educational Garden

§         Citizens for Lexington Conservation

§         Massachusetts Audubon Society

Grade 2

Native American Indians

§         Plimoth on the Web

§         New England Powwow Schedule

§         Native Tech

§         Projects and Lesson Plans

§         Plimoth on the Web

States of Matter/Snow

§         Snow Crystals

§         Wilson Snowflake Bentley - Photographer of Snowflakes

§         Know Snow

Soils

§         The Dirt on Soil

Grade 3:

Colonial Life:

§         Aspects of Colonial Life

Food Chains

§         Decomposers

Grade 4:

Classification

§         Introduction to Classification

Geology

§         Erosion

§         Making Soil

Grade 5:

Ecosystems:

§         What is an Ecosystem

Tracking:

§         Animal Tracks

§         Pocket Guide to MA Animal Tracks

Food Chains:

§         Elements of a Food Chain

 

Winter Survival:

§         Insects in Winter

§         How Plants survive Winter

 

 

 

 


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Last Update: 07-10-2006