The Nature Center is a school-wide, interdisciplinary, exploratorium designed to aid in teaching all students awareness and appreciation of our most precious resource, Earth. 

To increase knowledge and understanding of the natural environment and humankind’s relationship towards it. To develop awareness, appreciation, and a sense of responsibility towards the natural environment. To have a natural area on school grounds where students may study physical features, native flora and fauna, and their inter- and interrelationships. To provide a natural outdoor laboratory for the stimulation of students’ inquisitive scientific curiosity. To help promote hands-on, minds-on learning into the numerous components of Gulf Coast ecosystems. To create an outdoor laboratory easily accessible for all students of Bush Elementary. 

Those objectives will be accomplished through the use of grade level specific activities. The pond community themes for every grade level are as follows:

• Kindergarten/Multi-Impaired/Early Childhood - Animals in Our Center
• First Grade - Plants and Trees in Our Center
• Second Grade - Primary Naturalists
• Third Grade - Life Cycles in Nature
• Fourth Grade - Texas Gulf Coast Ecosystems
• Fifth Grade - The Delicate Chemistry of Nature in Pond Community

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