Nature Unhooked
Nature Unhooked includes a student book, science notebook, and teacher guide to help middle-school students learn about the role of water in an ecosystem.
The Discover Nature Schools (DNS) program, Nature Unhooked, is a curriculum of 6 units designed for 6th-8th grade students with hands-on, outdoor learning that focuses on water properties and Missouri aquatic ecosystems including weathering and erosion, food chains, organism roles and interactions, as well as macroinvertebrate sampling, water quality testing, and water pollution engineering. The curriculum is aligned with Missouri Learning Standards (MLS) in science, including life, physical, earth and space, and engineering practices.
Learn ways to help your students discover Missouri ecology in this one-day teacher workshop at Caldwell Memorial Wildlife Area in Washington, Missouri. The typically two-day workshop will be condensed into a one-day, extended training covering our Nature Unleashed (designed for 3rd grade to 5th grade students) and Nature Unhooked (designed for 6th grade to 8th grade students) units. During the workshop, teachers will become familiar with Missouri’s prairie, forest and aquatic ecosystems through hands-on, outdoor activities.
Nature Unhooked is the middle school level aquatic unit of the Discover Nature Schools program and is aligned with the Missouri Learning Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Emphasis of this unit is on student-centered and collaborative investigations of the properties of water, water cycle, biotic energy flow, biodiversity, and human impacts on aquatic ecosystems. A Project Based Learning component is also included in this unit. This workshop will cover lessons and activities from the unit as well as an outdoor, experiential approach to student learning.
The Discover Nature Schools, Nature Unhooked, is a program for 6th-8th grade teachers. This hands-on, inquiry-based teacher workshop will be an engaging foundation for the Nature Unhooked lessons. The materials are aligned to the Missouri Learning Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. We will discover the local aquatic life and their importance to people and natural communities.
The program includes the follow items at no charge for Missouri Teachers:
• full-color, illustrated student book
• student science notebook
Nature Unhooked is the middle school level aquatic unit of the Discover Nature Schools program and is aligned with the Missouri Learning Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Emphasis of this unit is on student-centered and collaborative investigations of the properties of water, water cycle, biotic energy flow, biodiversity, and human impacts on aquatic ecosystems. A Project Based Learning component is also included in this unit. This workshop will cover lessons and activities from the unit as well as an outdoor, experiential approach to student learning.
This is one option offered within a well-being professional development day for middle school faculty of the Kirkwood School District. The workshop will include tour of the exhibits at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center, thoughtful group discussion of the health and therapeutic benefits of spending time in natural settings based on published research, and practical applications within educational settings including use of Nature Unhooked and other DNS units.
This workshop is for 6th and 7th grade Science teachers within the district.
Unhooked Certification for Fisk Elem and Holcomb Middle School
Introducing the place-based science and conservation education program. The main focus to compliment existing Neosho School District curriculum and include exciting and engaging inquiry-based activities designed to bring students outdoors and closer to nature. We will summarize the curriculum, go over field experience options in SW Missouri, cover the grant opportunities.
Nature Unhooked (6th-8th) Teacher Training Description: The Discover Nature Schools (DNS) program, Nature Unhooked, is a curriculum of 6 units designed for 6th-8th grade students with hands-on, outdoor learning that focuses on water properties and Missouri aquatic ecosystems including weathering and erosion, food chains, organism roles and interactions, as well as macroinvertebrate sampling, water quality testing, and water pollution engineering.