Brownie- Math in Nature

Description

Earn all three badges with the Math in Nature bundle.  Everything is virtual and self-paced.

On-Demand course content will release April 30th, 2022

Shapes in Nature

Nature is full of colors and shapes. Imagine a leopard’s spots or a butterfly’s wings. Think of a bee’s honeycomb or a turtle’s shell. In this badge, you’ll look carefully at nature. You’ll track what you see. You’ll create art about it. You’ll share what you find.

1. Track natural objects
2. Graph your scavenger hunt finds
3. Make a spider web with symmetry
4. Explore tessellations
5. Count birds and share your data

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know about counting, graphing, symmetry, and tessellations. You’ll know about spiders, birds, and other natural objects.

Numbers in Nature

Do you like the feel of sun or sea water on your skin? Do you like the smell of flowers or pine trees? Have you ever listened to the birds? Touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing are all ways to sense or understand the world around us. This badge is all about understanding nature. You’ll use your senses to gather information. You’ll use other tools to learn even more about nature.

1. Explore temperature
2. Measure the length of leaves
3. Graph your leaf data
4. Find space to grow
5. Plot and plant a garden

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to measure temperature and length. You’ll know about square feet and how to create a diagram and grid. You’ll have explored leaves and gardening.

Design in Nature

Plants, bees, and birds are fascinating! They’re all part of nature. This badge is all about using math to do things in nature. Math can help you design a garden, build a bird feeder, and explore the world of bees.

1. Calculate the age of a natural object
2. Explore the shape of beehives
3. Measure and build a bird feeder
4. Use ratios to make bird food
5. Graph data about birds

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know about bees, butterflies, birds, and other natural objects. You’ll know how to calculate the age of natural objects, use scale and ratios, measure, and make a graph.