Joseph Cornell

Sharing Nature® (eBook, ePUB)

Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sharing Nature by author Joseph Bharat Cornell

A nature education classic has been rewritten!

Joseph Cornell has combined Sharing Nature with Children (which has sold more than half a million copies and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education) with Sharing Nature with Children II (a treasury of some of Joseph's best-loved nature games for children and adults) in one complete volume: Sharing Nature.

Upon its release, Sharing Nature quickly received prestigious awards:

• Winner, Silver Nautilus Award in the Animals & Nature category
• Winner, Grand Prize: Indie Book Awards in the Non-Fiction category
• Winner, Indie Book Award in the Science/Nature/Environment category
• Winner, Indie Book Award in the Parenting/Family category
• Winner, Silver Evergreen Medal in the Nature Conservation category
• Winner, Green Book Festival Award in the How-To category
• Shortlisted, 2016 Green Earth Book Award in the Young Adult Nonfiction category
• Finalist, 2016 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Nature category

Not just a book, this is a powerful approach to nature education. Fans of the original work will be excited by this new version of their beloved nature handbook, which incorporates the author's latest insights. (Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience to significantly revise and expand this book.)

New readers-including outdoor enthusiasts of all types and nature-based schools and instructors-will be enthralled by this phenomenal teaching tool. Essential, easy to use, Sharing Nature is nature awareness made simple. It makes experiencing nature fun. An extraordinary resource for anyone who would like to get in touch with the land, trees, and mountains. This book is a treasure trove of games and activities that tap into our natural curiosity, imagination, and wonder. Give a friend or a child an experience of Nature and wildlife that he will remember the rest of his life.

Sharing Nature takes readers beyond their intellects and into their hearts, where true understanding and appreciation take place. The wildly popular nature activities in this book arouse a sense of mystery, and engender quiet attention, observation, and the possibility of revelation. New nature games-and old favorites-and Cornell's typically insightful commentary makes this new and quintessential version of this special classic even more valuable to nature enthusiasts worldwide.

In page after page of innovative activities, Cornell's unique blend of knowledge and warmth creates a contagious atmosphere for learning. Enjoy the color interior with 250 photos offering comprehensive easy-to-follow instructions.

The Sharing Nature movement has expanded to countries all over the globe. Cornell and his work have been recommended by the Boy Scouts of America, the American Camping Association, the National Audubon Society, Japan's national school system, and many others. Cornell also introduces his remarkable technique of Flow Learning, showing how to match nature activities to the interest and energy levels of participants and children, and to organize them in a way that works, placing them in thematic sequence to ensure a genuinely uplifting experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crystal Clarity Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781565895546
• Artikelnr.: 43420147

Autorenporträt

Joseph Bharat Cornell is an internationally renowned author and founder of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet's most widely respected nature awareness programs. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education and has been published in twenty languages and sold half a million copies. He is the honorary president of Sharing Nature Association of Japan, which has 10,000 members and 35,000 trained leaders.

He the author of the Sharing Nature Book Series, used by millions of parents, educators, naturalists, and youth and religious leaders all over the world. Cornell's books, Listening to Nature and The Sky and Earth Touched Me, have inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship with nature. Two recent books of his: The Sky and Earth Touched Me and Sharing Nature were awarded Indie Book Grand Prize Winners for Non-Fiction.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service selected Cornell's Sharing Nature with Children as one of the fifteen most influential books published since 1890 for connecting children and families to nature. His highly effective outdoor learning strategy, Flow Learning™, was featured by the U.S. National Park Service as one of five recommended learning theories, along with the works of Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.

Cornell has received many international awards for his Sharing Nature books and work. He received the prestigious Countess Sonja-Bernadotte Prize in Germany for his vast influence on environmental education in Central Europe. In 2011 Cornell was selected as one of the world's 100 most influential opinion leaders committed to the Environment by the French organization, Les Anges Gardiens de la Planète.

Known for his warmth and joyful enthusiasm, Cornell has a genius for finding the essence of a subject, explaining it in clear and compelling ways, and then giving the reader creative exercises to gain an actual experience.