References:
Childhood and Nature: Design Principals for Educators by David Sobel
Joseph Cornell, is quite simply, a brilliant nature educator. He has produced, among other things, two classic outdoor activity books, Sharing Nature With Children, and Sharing the Joy of Nature. These two books are a complete library of outdoor experience and learning activities. A number of the activities have seeds in his work.
David Sobel’s book, called Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart of Nature Education, is a wonderful read. In it, he eloquently states what many of us already intuitively know, “If we want children to flourish, to become truly
empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth, before we ask them to save it.”
Childhood and Nature: Design Principals for Educators by David Sobel
Joseph Cornell, is quite simply, a brilliant nature educator. He has produced, among other things, two classic outdoor activity books, Sharing Nature With Children, and Sharing the Joy of Nature. These two books are a complete library of outdoor experience and learning activities. A number of the activities have seeds in his work.
David Sobel’s book, called Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart of Nature Education, is a wonderful read. In it, he eloquently states what many of us already intuitively know, “If we want children to flourish, to become truly
empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth, before we ask them to save it.”
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The Keeper of Wild Words by Brooke Smith; Illustrated by Madeline Kloepper.
When a girl visits her grandmother, a writer and “grand friend,” she is seeking something special to share at show and tell on the first day of school. |
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A Walk in the Forest by Maria Dek
A startling, successful evocation of the natural world and an urgent entreaty for young people to immerse themselves in the forest |
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Wild Berriesby Julie Flett, translated by Earl N. Cook
Spend the day picking wild blueberries with Clarence and his grandmother. Meet ant, spider, and fox in a beautiful woodland andscape, the ancestral home of author and illustrator Julie Flett. |