Outdoor Hour Challenge
Crayfish Study
Inside Preparation Work:
- Read pages 425-432 in the Handbook of Nature Study (Lesson #108). I think Anna Botsford Comstock really liked crayfish because this lesson is so very detailed! It makes me wish we had a crayfish to observe up close but for now we will enjoy her description.
- Highlight interesting facts in the lesson to share with your children.
- Youtube video: How to Catch a Crayfish/Crawdad
- Advanced Study: Youtube video: Crayfish External Anatomy.
Outdoor Hour Time:
- Plan a trip to a local creek to look for your own crayfish or other aquatic inhabitants. If you don’t have any crayfish to observe, make sure to create a nature journal page with any subjects your child finds of interest.
- Take along a plastic tub or jar to collect some creek water. Use your magnifying lens to look for anything interesting in your water.
Follow-Up Activity:
- Create a nature journal entry for crayfish, any other aquatic creatures you observed, or the creek water.
- Use the notebook pages and/or the coloring pagein the ebook to create a memory of your outdoor time.
- Advanced Study: Draw a crayfish for your nature journal and label its parts. Record any interesting facts you learned and want to remember.
- Advanced Study: Do some research on arthropods and create a notebook page to record the definition, a list of arthropods, and your favorite facts about arthropods.
Join us for this spring series of challenges every week here on the Handbook of Nature Study.
If you want to purchase the Spring Nature Study Continues ebook so you can follow along with all the notebooking pages, coloring pages, and subject images, you can join the Ultimate or Journey Membership Levels. See the Join Us page for complete information. Also, you can view the Spring Nature Study Continues – New Ebook announcement page for more details.
In two weeks, we start the summer series from the new ebook, Summer Nature Study Continues.
