This worksheet can be used as an activity in a high school classroom where students will be responsible for planning out the long-term phenology monitoring program to be established at the school or within the community.  It includes a series of thought-provoking questions that students can discuss in groups.  It will work best in conjuntion with other preliminary Nature's Notebook activities.

Background information on the physical characteristics of a site can be found on the second worksheet called, Guiding tips for site set up and Sugerencias para ubicar su sitio físico - en español

USA-NPN Education Publication Number: 2014-006-C; 2014-006a-C (2014-006-CSP ; 2014-006a-CSP - Spanish)