Nature Diary Printable for Students

This Nature Diary is perfect for your students to take along with them as they enjoy nature walks at school and at home.

This Nature Diary has been designed with the young/special needs child in mind, especially those who are not particularly arty, to encourage them to begin to record their observations in a simple way.

Nature study, once a much-promoted means for teaching science was once the domain of the public school where it was taught diligently.

Home educators are rediscovering its benefits, as promoted by Charlotte Mason.

Format of the nature diary

The diary has room for 28 entries.

On each page, the child will label the entry with the day's date.

Students will make accurate observations about the weather, what they saw and where they saw it.

Each page has a small box for students to draw a picture.

There is more room at the end of the book for extra notes/sketches.

The diary can be used just as much in a town as in the country as there is always something to see, even in the crack of a pavement.

The benefits of nature study.

To encourage observational skills

To encourage pupils to ask and find answers to questions

To encourage pupils to learn about the fascinating natural world around them, and from there to want to care for the amazing world in which they live.

What is included?

1 PDF with room for 28 entries.