Hands-on activities designed to help educators with ideas for doing science! This activity demonstrated how to contribute to a long-term phenology research project in your classroom. Resources shared include a Jr. Phenologist Certification Program, a species research worksheet and an example of simplified data collection sheets to be used as an introduction to phenology monitoring. 

This introduction to phenology monitoring in the classroom was presented to elementary school teachers at the Sam Hughes Elementary School in Tucson (grades K-5).  You will find some helpful getting started and curricula resources below. All of the resources can be found by searching the main Nature's Notebook Curriculum page: https://www.usanpn.org/educate/nn_curriculum

This workshop was the first in a series of two held during the PhenoWeek 2015 Celebration. Objectives include: 

Below you will find links to the presentations given during Phenology Week in our lecture series and workshops.  

This two-hour activity and lecture was delivered to the Vail Garden Club in Vail, Arizona. 

This 1.5 hour lecture was presented as a course for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in  Green Valley, Arizona.  It is a basic introduction to the concepts of observation, climate, ecology, phenology, and the USA National Phenology Network.

This 2 hour lecture was given to a home water harvesting class at the University of Arizona.  It covers general phenological concepts as well as applications in water harvesting and rain garden environments.  It also included a general field portion where students were introduced to local species on the Tucson Phenology Trail and a discussion about major phenophases such as leafing, flowering, and fruiting.