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.
Autorentext
Marina Robb is a qualified teacher specialising in Environmental Education. Victoria Mew is a Forest School practitioner with wide experience in wilderness survival and nature awareness schools both in the UK and the USA. Anna Richardson has a huge amount of experience in bushcraft and is a Forest School teacher. Their courses for children, and for adults training to work with children, are proving both popular and hugely successful.
Zusammenfassung
Learning with Nature is full of fun activities and games to get your children outdoors, to explore, have fun, make things and learn about nature and help them grow up happy and healthy. Suitable for groups of children aged between 3 and 16, the graded activities help children develop: * Key practical and social skills * Awareness of their place in the world * Respect for the natural world All while enjoying the great outdoors. Written by experienced Forest School practitioners, using tried and tested games and activities, it provides comprehensive information for enriching childrens' learning through nature. The games and activities are clearly categorized, with step-by-step instructions, age guide, a list of resources needed, and invisible learning points. This book is a unique must-have resource for families, schools, youth groups and anyone working with children.
Inhalt
Foreword by Chris Packham
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