This Backyard Quiz is based off of a quiz of the same name from Owl Eyes. Owl Eyes is a children’s educational activity book by expert environmental educator Devin Franklin. The guidebook aims to “open your senses” and “discover nature’s secrets” with “mapping, tracking, and journaling activities.”
Discover Your Own Backyard with this BACKYARD QUIZ!
- Name a tree that grows in your backyard, draw a picture of it and a picture of its leaf! (If you don’t have any trees in your yard, you can use a shrub or bush.)
Your picture of the tree
Your picture of the leaf
- Name a kind of bird that visits your backyard.
____________________________________
- Draw a picture of this bird and label two things you notice that could help identify it.
Your Picture of the Bird
- What kind of habitats can be found in your backyard?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
- Draw a bird-eye view of your backyard (as if you were looking down at it from above).
Birds-Eye View of Your Backyard
- Write the name of a creature that lives in or passes through your backyard, then write one type of sign or trace that the animal leaves behind and make a sketch of this “clue.”
_______________________________________
Animal Trace
- Write the names of two things in your backyard that are connected to each other through some type of relationship, then briefly describe this relationship.
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
- Extra Credit: Get Creative!
Write a haiku or free-poem about your backyard
OR
Get a camera and explore your backyard like a tourist- take pictures of flowers, birds, squirrels, and insects you find! (If you have an app like iNaturalist, upload your observations and see if you can identify any of the plants and animals in your pictures)!
Be sure to share your results with us on Facebook or Instagram!