Speech and Language Nature Scavenger Hunt by Kristine Lamb teacherspayteachers.com

Check out this very cute FREE nature scavenger hunt checklist by Kristine Lamb on Teachers Pay Teachers for developing your student’s/child’s speech and language skills.

This fun speech therapy activity includes the following features:

•  A “Nature Scavenger Hunt” checklist and a “Describing” checklist.
• Both colored and black & white versions of each the scavenger hunt and describing checklist are included in this speech therapy pdf resource
• Print, laminate and use dry erase markers  to use and reuse the colored scavenger hunt and describing checklists multiple times
• Print and color or draw on the black-and-white copies of the checklists

Instructions:

1. Take your students or kids on a “nature walk”  outside to a park, courtyard or around the neighborhood.
2. At school, a Speech-Language Pathologist or teacher may choose to pair up  students and allow them to explore while checking off items on the nature checklists.
3. Kids can practice taking turns and expressive language by speaking about and describing the checklist items.
4. After the ”nature walk”, you can give your kids the “Describing” checklist to further target expressive language.
   • Ask kids to describe the look of each object (e.g., shape, color, size), its smell, how it felt and how it might have sounded.
   • Use this as an opportunity to expand utterances and practice labeling, categorizing and descriptive terms.

(Source: Teachers Pay Teachers)