Invite your pupils to explore their surroundings with a walk around the neighborhood. Learners use their senses to make observations about their surroundings. 

Concepts

the five senses, communities, neighborhoods, making observations, observational skills

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• If you'd prefer to do this as a whole class activity, talk a walk around your school together and have kids fill out the form; they can share and compare observations when they get back to the classroom
• Use this as a starting point for a unit on neighborhoods or communities
• Inspire your pupils to compose short descriptive paragraphs about their communities, using this observation page for notes
• Gather data and do some analysis with what your kids have found in their communities; perhaps you can make a class graph to compare and contrast

Classroom Considerations

• There isn't a lot of space to write in each box, so you may wish to prompt students to write down short observations

Pros

• Encourages class members to step outside and pay attention
• While simple, the activity could be used to lead into several different subjects

Cons

• None