The Nature Explorer's Drawing Guide for Kids
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

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Spark 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
Discovering Nature with Young Children

Author: Ingrid Chalufour

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2003-11-17

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1605543152

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Field-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.

Building Character with True Stories from Nature
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

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This 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.

Finding Lost Marbles
Finding Lost Marbles

Author: Richard Onofry

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1481743899

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It 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.

Nature activities for children
Nature activities for children

Author: Cristina Rebiere

Publisher: Rebiere

Published:

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Involving 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

Expect More: Children Can Do Remarkable Things
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

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This 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!

Nature Play Workshop for Families
Nature Play Workshop for Families

Author: Monica Wiedel-Lubinski

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1631598694

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National Outdoor Book Award Winner: A fun, practical guide to outdoor play that sparks a connection to nature vital to children’s healthy development. Today children and families are often plugged into electronics and disconnected from direct experiences in nature. This beautifully photographed resource offers tangible approaches to nature-based learning and play for children. Parents and teachers can discover the benefits of outdoor learning and simple ways to facilitate unplugged nature connection in every season. Inspired by nature preschools, forest kindergartens, and forest school models the world over, this guide also includes “Voices from the Field” with advice from experienced nature-based educators. Balancing nature play experiences with hands-on projects using natural materials, it’s an ideal jumping off point for immersive nature play. Examples include: Wildlife observation and tracking Nature sounds, songs, and poetry Gardening and cooking with wild edibles Printmaking, charcoal drawing, dyeing, and shadow play Journaling inspired by nature “Voices from the Field” includes more ideas and tips contributed by leading educators, including: Sally Anderson, Sol Forest School, Tijeras, New Mexico * Yash Bhagwanji, Florida Atlantic University * Lauren Brown, Asheville Farmstead School * Peter Dargatz, Woodside Elementary School, Sussex, Wisconsin * Monica French, Wild Haven Forest Preschool and Childcare, Baltimore, Maryland * Patricia Leon, Miami Nature Playschool * Sheila William Ridge, Shirley G. Moore Lab School, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota * Beth Savitz, Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills, Maryland * Maria Soboleski, New Mexico School for the Deaf * Paige Vonder Haar, Bunnell House Early Childhood Lab School, Fairbanks, Alaska * Susie Wirth, Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Foundation

Children and Nature
Children and Nature

Author: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002-05-03

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0262611759

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For 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.

Draw Your Own Nature Zendoodles
Draw Your Own Nature Zendoodles

Author: Abby Huff

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 151574843X

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Stroll through the natural world with zendoodling! Following easy step-by-step instructions, learn how to take simple lines and shapes and transform them into intricate dainty daisies, frilly feathers, twisty trees, and more. With extra tips, tricks, and craft ideas, young artists of every ability will have fun drawing these tangled creations. Grab a pencil, relax, and draw your own nature zendoodles!