Stephen Nett
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 0
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Every child enters the world loaded with remarkable abilities for exploring and experiencing the wonders of nature outdoors. But how do they learn to use them? This colorful Young Explorers Nature Journal provides an essential start. Simple, tested outdoor activities to help young children (4 - 8) discover their onboard explorer abilities, and learn fun ways to observe nature's creatures, features and hidden secrets, anywhere. Designed by an avid hiker, trail-experienced Naturalist, nature journalist, and father of four. Packed with more than 50 different easy and fun nature observing activities, tips and prompts - plus 60 pages of 8.5 x 11 guided Journaling spaces for drawing, coloring, writing - to help explorers record and cherish their personal discoveries. Includes helpful, important and tested tips for parents and teachers too.Nature is full of wonders. But they stay hidden until we learn how to observe them. Not just outdoor play or crafts: these are fun and simple introductory activities to help children discover all the sensory abilities they're born with - encourage natural curiosity and adventure, build outdoor skills and confidence, and form a deeper connection to the natural world we live in. (Pre and early readers will need an older partner to help read, choose and supervise activities.) ?Age-appropriate activities, no experience necessary, but skills to last a lifetime?Hours of healthy independent discovery and enjoyment?For homeschool, backyard, going camping, hiking, field trips, parks, family outdoor activities or just hours of fun outside?Directly connects children to key nature education concepts they study in books?A Naturalist-developed guide to observing the key features of nature, anywhereUse this Nature Journal to help young children develop the skill of observing the wonders and secrets hiding in the outdoors.