A guide to exploring the great outdoors for kids ages 6 to 12
Encourage young nature lovers to get outside and track, explore, discover, and create. This book is filled with hands-on, educational outdoor activities that kids will love to learn from, like crafting bird feeders out of fruit, pressing flowers, or creating sundials. They’ll get their hands dirty and their imaginations revving while staying active outside.
This standout among nature books for kids includes:
50 Fun outdoor projects―Inspire a lifetime of curiosity with tons of guided, interactive ideas that let kids observe animals, plants, and even outer space in action.
Activities for everyone, everywhere―The fun and games inside cover a range of seasons and regions so all kids can start exploring, no matter where they are.
Important skill-building—By stopping to notice and record what’s going on around them, kids will practice important skills like observation, memory, writing, drawing, wildlife safety, and more.
This hands-on approach to nature books for kids will show kids what makes the great outdoors great.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR {from Amazon}:
KIM ANDREWS is a North Carolina-based writer and blogger. She enjoys adventures by the river with her husband and their three children. She also loves full moons and thinks you can never have too many pet chickens. Kim is devoted to environmental education, homeschooling and teaching nature classes on her family's small farm. She blogs about her passion for exploring, crafting, and outdoor learning at www.LearningBarefoot.com.
MY REVIEW:
This book begins with a Letter to Parents and Teachers followed by a Letter to Kids. The author's warm and welcoming tone will appeal to children and adults. The author presents a 'Skills Key: Naturalist' sidebar which includes the things that a naturalist does, such as: Noticing (look, listen, smell, and feel) and Arts & Crafts (draw, paint, create). (page IX)
Other highlights include a section entitled 'Safety First' which includes hazards the readers may find in nature including: poison oak and poison ivy, snakes, fire ant mounds, ticks, and deep, fast-moving water. (page X, XI) A section entitled, 'The Naturalists' Toolkit' includes introductory activities that will help a reader prepare to become a naturalist.
The other chapters cover:
-- Seasons, Weather, Night and Day
-- Water, Soil, and Stone
-- Birds, Bugs, Mammals, and More
-- Trees, Plants, and Flowers
Back Matter includes a Skills Checklist, Glossary, Resources, and Index.
The format of the book is very user-friendly with many quality botanical drawings, diagrams, and side bars filled with valuable tidbits of information and simple activities to reinforce the lesson.
Highly-recommended!
I borrowed this book from the local public library system.
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This sounds like a perfect book for kids now that the weather is getting warmer. Thanks for featuring it this week.
ReplyDeleteI love books like this!
ReplyDeleteI spent the early part of my career teaching at an outdoor education facility for 6th and 7th graders. This would have been a perfect title back then as it is today. Thanks for featuring your review on MMGM.
ReplyDeleteI'm always enthralled by activity books, but don't really have many in my library, as they never circulate. Looks like an interesting one.
ReplyDeleteI just love books like this. My library doesn't have it, but I just ordered a copy online. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd learn as much from this as the kids! Sounds great! :)
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