ELA: addresses standards regarding writing narratives for real or imagined experiences/events, using descriptive details, and writing explanatory texts using relevant content.

Math: students could use this nature journaling activity as an extension to address standards 1-3 of the “Statistics and Probability” unit by investigating bivariate data on population trends of various organisms in the nature journaling ecosystem.

Social Studies: students could address standard 7.1a by exploring indigenous perspectives on the environment.

Art: can help students express their nature journaling more deeply and develop personal meaning from the experience by encouraging them to translate their reflection to a different medium.