Nature-Based Preschool Professional Practice Guidebook
Author: Christy Merrick
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780578545653
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Preschool Beyond Walls
Author: Rachel Larimore
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780876597941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A guide for converting an existing preschool program to a nature-based preschool"--
Nature-Based Learning for Young Children
Author: Julie Powers
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 160554597X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice nature educators to highly experienced nature educators in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson plans, guidance and health and safety issues related to nature activities, ideas for free/inexpensive equipment and materials and for big ticket items, ideas for family involvement, and connections to early childhood learning standards. Chapters are divided by nature topic so readers can dip in right away where they want to start exploring.
Childhood and Nature
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 157110741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of essays combining anecdotal and theoretical insights into environmental ethics and human ecology to help foster environmentally responsible students.
Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool
Author: Rachel A. Larimore
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781879931305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature-based preschools are powerful programs that fuse early childhood and environmental education to develop a child's lifelong connection with the natural world. With the number of this unique, cutting-edge program growing throughout the country, many nature centers are asking, "Is a nature-based preschool right for us?" Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool helps answer that question, and provides a how-to guide to move from concept to implementation.
Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1605544299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything you need to get started and succeed in a nature preschool or forest kindergarten.
Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool
Author: Rachael A. Larimore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1879931354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature-based preschools are powerful programs that fuse early childhood and environmental education to develop a child's lifelong connection with the natural world. With the number of this unique, cutting-edge program growing throughout the country, many nature centers are asking, “Is a nature-based preschool right for us?” Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool helps answer that question, and provides a how-to guide to move from concept to implementation.
Cultivating the Genius of Black Children
Author: Debra Sullivan
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1605544051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the first practical, hands-on resource to help early childhood educators create learning environments in which black children thrive.
Learning with Nature
Author: Claire Warden
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2015-09-26
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1473906369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearning outside the classroom is a key part of early years and primary practice and is on the rise in settings across the world. This book centres on outstanding outdoor practice and how children can learn and develop in natural environments. Focussing on children aged from 2-11 this book contains: A self-evaluation toolkit for educators to reflect on what they’re doing now and where to develop to be more effective. Examples of practice from around the world and in various environments, including urban settings. An entire chapter on assessment and planning to help ensure and demonstrate quality of provision. Looking at all the possibilities and approaches, there are models for practice to suit every setting so that everyone can make outdoor learning part of the core teaching and learning objectives. Claire Warden is an educational consultant with an international reputation for pioneering work in education and a focus on children’s connection to the natural world.
Experiencing Nature with Young Children
Author: Alice Sterling Honig
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781938113079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConnecting Children to the Wonder of Nature There's a whole world outdoors waiting to embrace young children--with their curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm--and to impart its treasures. Experiencing Nature With Young Children invites you to explore this world with children from birth to age 8 in ways that will - Awaken their enjoyment and appreciation of nature - Nurture their emotional development - Enhance their cognitive growth - Spark their creativity - Help them discover how we all--people, animals, plants--are connected - Engage families and communities in preserving nature Along the way, children will learn to love nature and its inhabitants. And in learning to love, they will learn to care--helping to ensure that our natural environment will be well looked-after by the next generation. Part ballad to nature, part irresistible invitation to teachers, this book will awaken and renew your own joy in nature--and move you to experience it with young children.
