Nature Sketch by the Robert Bateman Foundation
Observe nature in your schoolyard, make art and have fun!
© École Elizabeth Rummel School
Nature Sketch by the Robert Bateman Foundation
Fostering a love of nature, wherever it is found, is a significant goal of WWF’s Living Planet @ School program. Getting outdoors and making art about nature cultivates a direct way of knowing our ecosystems.
Students will learn about wildlife and habitat of local flora and fauna as they observe. These skills lay the foundation for a lifelong engagement with nature as an artist, ecologist, citizen scientist, or outdoor enthusiast.
Through the Nature Sketch program, you can provide your students with a special way of combining environmental awareness with art and developing your students’ powers of observation when noticing nature.
Bring Nature Sketch to Life
- Register and count your class in for knowing nature through art
- Review the Introduction to Nature Sketch resource for simple lesson plans
- Adapt your lesson to your classroom’s needs with the Reflection Questions & Teacher Tips resource
- Gather your supplies and your students
- Take in nature with your students. Your lesson time can range from 15 minutes or even the whole day
- Observe and sketch!
- Share with WWF: Track your students’ experience with nature through art in your Living Planet @ School dashboard to demonstrate the power of students across Canada.
Introductory Webinar
- Learn the importance of students noticing nature
- Find out how you can bring Nature Sketch to life for your students
- Follow along with our artist as she demonstrates an introductory sketching lesson
- Learn how to share your classroom’s impact on WWF’s Living Planet @ School
- Link to our Introductory Webinar here.
Key Dates
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September 1, 2024Get started and organize your lesson
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June 30, 2025Final date to submit results and success story
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