Turn your learners into wildlife detectives! 🐾
In this hands-on Animal Tracks & Scat lesson, kids learn how to read the stories animals leave behind in nature.
This lesson includes a full teaching script with rich, real-life photos and guides students through what to look for when identifying tracks, patterns, and clues. Learners explore tracks and scat from many North American animals, building observation skills and confidence as young naturalists.
Through play-based learning, movement, art, and food (yes—food!), children engage their whole bodies and minds while having a whole lot of fun.
What’s Included:
Full scripted lesson with lots of real photos
Track identification basics: size, shape, pattern, and clues
Scat identification and what it can tell us about animals
Built-in Truth Talk devotional
Track matching game
Animal detective game
PE game to get little bodies moving
Art lesson inspired by animal tracks
Recipe for edible scat (a student favorite!)
Perfect for co-ops, forest schools, homeschool families, pods, and nature groups, this lesson works beautifully for mixed-age learning and encourages curiosity, outdoor exploration, and joyful discovery.
🌲 Best for ages 4–11
Reviews
What kid doesn't like scat talk? My kiddo (and I) learned a lot and had some great belly laughs too! Thanks for working so hard to make such wonderful engaging lesson plans!
My 11 year old and 6 year old LOVED this lesson! It was so fun for us all to learn side by side, my kids thoroughly enjoyed learning about animals’ differing scat and how to identify them in the wild by their tracks! Highly recommend for an in-depth, entertaining approach to this topic.