Resources For Educators
Bioblitz participants learn about the iNaturalist app at LSU Hilltop Arboretum.
The City Nature Challenge: Baton Rouge is part of an international competition that will raise your students’ awareness of the diversity of living organisms around them and throughout the world. Using the iNaturalist app, students will have the opportunity to contribute valuable citizen science data from home and school during this exciting global event.
Follow-up lessons provide numerous opportunities to practice skills in reflecting on data that is important to their local ecosystem as well as global implications such as migration patterns and effects of climate change.
The Encyclopedia of Life has lesson plans available for grades 2 - 12.
Some educator resource highlights:
The global City Nature Challenge organizers have educator basecamp resources available.
iNaturalist.org has a Teacher’s Guide and links to example lesson plans and guides.
The City of St. Louis has compiled a City Nature Challenge Educator’s Guide as part of their Urban Vitality and Ecology initiative.
Scout Troops
The City of St. Louis has compiled a City Nature Challenge Scout Leader Guide as part of their Urban Vitality and Ecology initiative.
Parents
Inspire the kids to look for nature by playing BR Nature Bingo! Download the PDF
Please contact us at brnaturechallenge@gmail.com if you would like further information, assistance, or possibly a classroom visit from one of our Louisiana Master Naturalists.
“I would probably liken the iNaturalist interface to a Pokedex + Instagram for living things.”
An assortment of videos for inspiration
Plan a bioblitz during the City Nature Challenge!
A quick overview of how to participate in the City Nature Challenge: Baton Rouge!
iNaturalist FAQs
Water critters make great iNaturalist observations too!
Don’t forget nocturnal organisms!
Kids may enjoy the SEEK app by iNaturalist. If you log into your iNaturalist account from within the SEEK app, your SEEK observations during the event will count toward the City Nature Challenge.
City Nature Challenge perspectives from our friends in Britain
Experts and teachers have a role in the CNC too!