Lesson 2: Build Your Environmental Gallery
A nature journal is a personal record of scientific observation. Scientists have kept them for centuries — Charles Darwin kept meticulous journals, as did John Muir and many of the world’s greatest naturalists.
Your journal from this course is a real scientific document. It contains original observations of a real ecosystem made by a real observer — you — at a specific time and place.
That is something worth being proud of and worth preserving.
With your parent, create a display of your best nature journal pages, drawings, and observations from the six weeks. Arrange them in a way that tells the story of what you discovered. Give your gallery a title. Take a photograph of it when it is finished.
Treat the gallery creation with the same seriousness you would give any art or science display. Photograph it when it is complete — both for portfolio documentation and because your student deserves to see their work treated as genuinely significant. This photograph belongs in their academic portfolio.