Education Resources

Video about tracking the phenology of lilacs

This activity explores the question: which species will be most affected by temperature changes, and how will changes in the phenology of one species affect its interaction with others as the climate warms. Created by Beatriz Villar, Northampton CC

This lesson can be used as a supplement in a course designed to demonstrate climate change impacts on biotic species or a course designed to study the natural history of species in a given range.

This lesson helps students become familiar with plant and animal species present in an oak tree ecosystem.

This activity will introduce phenology to students and will serve as a warm up to conducting more complex observations to be submitted to Natures Notebook. Students will observe one specimen on their own and practice making simple observations. This activity was submitted by Amie Cox from the Red Butte Garden for partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Local Phenology Leader Certification Program in the Spring of 2018.

This adaptation explores the questions: Based on observations of bumblebee phenology, are bumblebees in the western United States behaving differently from 2011 to 2019? What climate variables may help explain bumblebee activity? (Only Part A and B). Created by Anna Strimaitis Grinath.

Conduct this activity before students are introduced to data collection using the Nature's Notebook observation protocols. This activity will familiarize students with some of the main phenophases present on select species during certain times throughout the school year.

Ask a Biologist - online resource of education materials from Arizona State University.

Resources and information on firefly research and conservation.

Partners in Place encourages poeple to meditate and reflect by obeserving the changes in seasons.