Use Your Senses!
How can you use your senses to observe a pond?
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Goal:
At a pond, you can use many of your senses, like sight, hearing, smelling, and touching. Do not taste anything at the pond unless you bring your own picnic lunch. Learn more about how you can use your senses at the pond by clicking through the tabs below.
You can use your sense of sight to see plants, animals, and insects in and around a pond.
Your nose might smell a stinky smell of rotten eggs, fish, or standing water.
You can use your sense of hearing to listen to birds, croaking frogs, animals swimming, and wind blowing through the plants.
Use your sense of touch to feel the water or the fuzzy tops of the cattail plants.
Question
How can you use your senses to observe a pond?
You can use your senses to see animals and plants, hear nature sounds, touch water and plants, and smell pond smells.