To complete this lab,
Listen to the recorded interview ‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest
ComfortLinks to an external site.
Go outdoors: Find a place outside where you can be in nature for at least 1 hour. This
could be a national, state, or local park; a city square with trees and gardens; an old
cemetery; or even your own backyard. Be creative. For those of you who may believe
nature isn’t around you or will not have the opportunity to venture into nature, the
recorded interview ‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest ComfortLinks to an
external site. may inspire you with creative ways to complete this assignment, particularly
if you are living in a highly urban area.
Observe: Once you are outdoors, choose a comfortable spot where you can stand or sit
quietly for at least 1 hour of continuous solitude. Set your smartphone to airplane mode.
Take a photo of the view from your spot. Then, quietly take in your surroundings. What do
you notice? Use your sight, hearing, smell, and feeling to take the world in. Be as still and
quiet as you can. Here are some questions to guide your observations:
What is the weather?
What is the quality of light outside?
What do you hear?
What do you see?
What do you smell?
How do you feel?
What parts of the landscape appeal most to you?
What do you notice that makes you curious?
What can you observe about the landscape? (Are there several trees? How many distinct
types? Are you in a meadow? Are there different flowers? Are you by the ocean? Are there
birds? What are any organisms present currently doing?)
Write down a scientific question that you could pose related to where you are conducting
your nature experience. What would be your hypothesis? How would you conduct research
to test your hypothesis?
Write: Either while you are outdoors or immediately on your return, write at least 250
words about your nature experience. Use paragraphs and cover both what you directly
experienced during your time outdoors and your feelings and reflections on that
experience. Be sure to describe where you went and the time of day during your
observation.
Listen to the recorded interview ‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest
ComfortLinks to an external site.
Go outdoors: Find a place outside where you can be in nature for at least 1 hour. This
could be a national, state, or local park; a city square with trees and gardens; an old
cemetery; or even your own backyard. Be creative. For those of you who may believe
nature isn’t around you or will not have the opportunity to venture into nature, the
recorded interview ‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest ComfortLinks to an
external site. may inspire you with creative ways to complete this assignment, particularly
if you are living in a highly urban area.
Observe: Once you are outdoors, choose a comfortable spot where you can stand or sit
quietly for at least 1 hour of continuous solitude. Set your smartphone to airplane mode.
Take a photo of the view from your spot. Then, quietly take in your surroundings. What do
you notice? Use your sight, hearing, smell, and feeling to take the world in. Be as still and
quiet as you can. Here are some questions to guide your observations:
What is the weather?
What is the quality of light outside?
What do you hear?
What do you see?
What do you smell?
How do you feel?
What parts of the landscape appeal most to you?
What do you notice that makes you curious?
What can you observe about the landscape? (Are there several trees? How many distinct
types? Are you in a meadow? Are there different flowers? Are you by the ocean? Are there
birds? What are any organisms present currently doing?)
Write down a scientific question that you could pose related to where you are conducting
your nature experience. What would be your hypothesis? How would you conduct research
to test your hypothesis?
Write: Either while you are outdoors or immediately on your return, write at least 250
words about your nature experience. Use paragraphs and cover both what you directly
experienced during your time outdoors and your feelings and reflections on that
experience. Be sure to describe where you went and the time of day during your
observation.
