Meddybemps Nature Notebook

I love to learn about nature, don't you? Plants and animals, rocks, clouds, and seashells are all so very interesting!

I often go on nature hikes with children to see what we can find. I always bring a notebook or a sketch pad and usually someone brings a camera. Sometimes we have binoculars or a telescope, too.

I think the best way to remember what we discover is to make notes in a nature notebook. I'll show you some pages from mine and I'll tell you how to make one for you to use.

I use my computer to print Nature Notebook pages which I put into a loose leaf binder. I glue photographs or drawings of what I saw onto the page and then I make my notes. Look at my Kookaburra page to see what a page looks like. If you don't have a binder, you can keep your pages in a folder or envelope or you can hold them together with a paper clip.

If your teacher or parents have a video camera you can use, ask them for a tape of your own so you can collect movies and sounds of your nature discoveries.

Make notes about everything you observe. If you want to know more, ask your parents or teacher to help you search for more information at your library, in an encyclopedia, or on the Internet.

Before long, your notebook will be filled with information and you will know a lot about about the world around you. Have fun!

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Here are examples for you. Click on the miniature pages below to see them full size. Then print the ones you need. The simpler pages are for very young naturalists. These are pdf files and will take a few seconds to appear. The Animal, Plant and Other Things Pages will be blank so you can add your own pictures and notes.