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Learning with Nature
A how-to guide to inspiring children through outdoor games and activities
Learning with Nature
A how-to guide to inspiring children through outdoor games and activities
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Description
A beautifully designed book full of creative ideas and fun activities to get your children outdoors, with a foreword by Chris Packham.
Spending time outdoors and interacting with the elements gives our senses a host of stimuli that cannot be recreated indoors. Whether you're splashing in muddy puddles, making shelters, foraging blackberries, playing hide and seek or watching birds, experiencing the natural world reduces stress, makes us feel alive and lays critical foundations for a healthy developing brain.
Learning with Nature is ideal for parents, teachers and youth workers looking to enrich children's learning through nature and teach them to enjoy and respect the great outdoors. Written by experienced Forest School practitioners, it is packed with more than 100 tried and tested games and activities suitable for groups of children aged between 3 and 16, which aim to help children develop key practical and social skills and gain a better awareness of the world. The book is well-organised and features step-by-step instructions, age guides, a list of resources needed, and invisible learning points.
Explore, have fun, make things and learn about nature with this fantastic guide.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Looking after nature
GAMES
- Warm-ups
- Plants and trees
- Animals and birds
- Sensory awareness
- Team building
- Wandering
NATURALIST ACTIVITIES
- Tool safety
- Wild facts
- Birds
- Animals
- Plants
- Trees
SEASONAL ACTIVITIES
- Teas through the seasons
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
SURVIVAL ACTIVITIES
- Foraging wild plants
- Fire safety
- Shelter
- Water
- Fire
- Wild food
Afterword by Jon Cree
Author biographies
Resources and bibliography
Nature organisations
Photograph credits
Index
Product details
Published | 29 Jan 2015 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 208 |
ISBN | 9780857842411 |
Imprint | Green Books |
Illustrations | Colour photos throughout |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Learnlng with Nature is a valuable resource to anyone with a passion to create this connection between children and the outside world. With 100 different game and activity ideas, forest school leaders, families, home schoolers, cubs, brownie, scout and guide leaders would all find something here.
Caroline Bennett, Westonbirt Magazine
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This book will be invaluable to all gardeners who enjoy creating opportunities to get their younger family and friends excited about being in a garden. I thoroughly recommend it.
The Gardening Times
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All three authors are experienced practitioners, and the book speaks with real authority.... The result is a book of outdoor ideas that just beg to be tried.
Make Wealth History
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This is a truly inspirational book that will get you and your children running to be outside.
Cathi Pawon, Juno
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A creative and easy to read guide of games and activities for the great outdoors which are suitable for all ages, from children of nursery age right through to adults. ... 6 out of 6 stars.
Sandra Kent, Families Magazine
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Whether you are a parent or educator, Learning with Nature is full of ideas for fun in the great outdoors. It caters for children and young people of all ages and abilities – and comes with clear instructions and illustrations. So grab a copy, get your boots on, fill your backpack and head to your nearest wild (or not so wild) space for some playful adventures.
Tim Gill, Author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk Averse Society