Marina Robb, Victoria Mew, Anna Richardson

Learning with Nature (eBook, PDF)

A how-to guide to inspiring children through outdoor games and activities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857842411
• Artikelnr.: 68369018

Autorenporträt

Marina Robb is the founder and Managing Director of Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC, a leading outdoor learning organisation. A qualified teacher who has specialised in environmental education, Marina's approach brings together best practice from environmental education, Forest School, eco-psychology, and indigenous wisdom. She draws upon many years of working with young people of all ages and backgrounds to create unique and fun learning experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

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