Defining Visual Arts
Author: Spramani Elaun
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08-19
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780991626458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains what visual art standards are and what to teach children
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The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids
Author: Brad Woodard
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1681989956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpark imagination and creativity with this interactive guidebook with step-by-step drawing lessons and fascinating facts about nature! Perfect for curious explorers and aspiring artists, this beginning drawing book will show kids how to observe and draw their favorite animals and the natural world in a fun, interactive style! Popular YouTube drawing instructor Brad Woodard, founder of the Brave Kids Art Club show, shares his easy-to-follow lessons and tips and tricks for getting outside and drawing cool stuff. Featuring: Intro to Exploring: Encourages kids to get outside and make their own discoveries, including facts about flora/fauna, things to observe about them, what to look for, and where to find them. Adding Flair: Teaches kids to be confident in what they create and find the freedom to discover their own drawing style. 30+ Awesome Animals: All your favorite animals are included as well as trees, flowers, plants, and more. This is the ultimate guide for any kid who wants to explore the world and learn to draw!
Discovering Nature with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2003-11-17
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1605543152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKField-tested across the country, this comprehensive curriculum expands and extends the role science has traditionally played in the early childhood classroom. The first in a new series, Discovering Nature with Young Children explores the wide-ranging elements that make up the natural world around us. The curriculum replaces simple fact-feeding practices with the development of long-term scientific reasoning, including literacy skills and numeracy skills, such as hypothesis, inference, prediction, and estimation.
Drawing for Young Children
Author: Horace Grant
Publisher:
Published: 1841
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature activities for children
Author: Cristina Rebiere
Publisher: Rebiere
Published:
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvolving children into nature protection? Are your children getting bored in front of the TV or with their gaming console? Do you want some ideas with playful or educational activities to make them aware of nature? This little Kids Experience "Nature activities for children" will help you! Discover different categories of games and activities for all ages, get some funny and creative ideas :-) We organize parties for more than ten years so take advantage from our experience in the organization of birthdays events and parties for children of all ages. Playing or inventing an activity tailored for your child is a magical time to share. It is also an opportunity to create unforgettable memories for both her or him, but also for you :-) We wish to share with you our useful knowledge, our tips to help you successfully play games or create activites that work in nature! What are you going to find in this Kids Experience practical guide: "Nature activities for children"? 5 sections with games and activities Tips, tricks and photos to illustrate the activities Presentation, material required, age, number of players Activity, benefits of each game or activity Always at hand! So, are you ready to unchain the creativity and play with your child in nature? OK, let's go! Sincerely, Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
Nature Education with Young Children
Author: Daniel R. Meier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-29
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1136154515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book’s guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education: • The power and value of equity and access to nature education • Effective teaching encompasses child development domains and integrates ECE curriculum • Children learn best through inquiry-based and child-centered teaching • Powerful teaching is founded upon teacher inquiry and reflection. Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner. Nature Education with Young Children strives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere.
Finding Lost Marbles
Author: Richard Onofry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013-05
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1481743899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was a time of honored traditions and tight-knit communities ... an era where neighborhood schools thrived, and children played simple games in the fresh outdoors. Finding Lost Marbles: Remembering the '50s in River City is a whimsical look back at what once was, before technological gadgetry "wired" our youth, and a reflective consideration of how we can reach back and resurrect some of the values that made the '50s so fabulous.
Children and Nature
Author: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2002-05-03
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0262611759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature. Children and Nature incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry, and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.
Building Character with True Stories from Nature
Author: Barbara A. Lewis
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Published: 2012-08-27
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1575426501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis flexible resource combines character education with analogies to powerful stories from nature. The heart of each of the book’s twenty-five lessons is an engaging story, written to kids, describing a particular animal or plant and its distinctive qualities. Busy classroom teachers will like this book’s accessibility and flexibility. Kids can read a story individually or in groups, or follow along as the teacher reads it aloud. Accompanying each story, teachers will find several activities—most of them quick, easy, and requiring few supplies—that further investigate animals or plants and the connections between their qualities and human behaviors. Every lesson examines several main character traits, providing starting points and sample questions for discussing and exploring analogies between events in nature and human acts of character. Features include a chart cross-referencing lessons to specific character traits and a list of further resources. Digital content contains all of the book’s reproducible forms, including a color photo of each plant and animal, plus a complete bonus lesson.
Expect More: Children Can Do Remarkable Things
Author: Anne Grall Reichel, Ed.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-09-22
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1452076324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book encourages teachers, parents, grandparents, and volunteers who work with children to expect more. It focuses on the skills children will need to compete in a highly competitive global economy. From systems thinking, to interpreting complex visual images, to integrative thinking our children need a whole new skill set. For too long science and social studies have been moved to the back burner. Ironically these subjects hold great interest and opportunity to investigate concepts in depth. We need to bring them to center stage. Throughout the book the author provides many concrete examples of ways for teachers and parents to engage children in meaningful conversation and problem solving. Somewhere along the way we seem to have stopped challenging children and started enabling them instead. Perhaps this is through no fault of our own? As teachers and parents we genuinely care about children. We feel for them when they are sick, when they are bullied or when they are struggling. Quite simply it is our nature to protect. With the best of intentions we tend to try and eliminate the struggle. But the struggle is essential to growth and a personal sense of accomplishment. As children work their way through challenges they build the confidence and habits of mind needed to embrace the next challenge that comes along. This book is an invitation to adults to expect more of themselves and of the children they care about. The invitation is yours to accept!
