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Monday thought of the week: brooks not books
A thought: Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers. – naturalist Louis Agassiz on how children should collect natural history specimens, quoted in David Starr Jordan‘s Science Sketches (Chicago: … Continue reading
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BOOK: Woodland Adventure Handbook
If you run a nature camp or family nature group and have access to a wooded area near you, this just might be a book you need on your shelf. Adam Dove, Woodland Adventure Handbook (London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2015), … Continue reading
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Monday thought of the week: all meant to be naturalists
A thought: We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. … Continue reading
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Where to go: to visit a nature center
This is the first in a new series of posts on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month that will highlight great places to go in the Portland region for a particular nature activity. ——————– Where to go: to … Continue reading
Posted in "oregon zoo", "tualatin river national wildlife refuge", "where to go" series, audubon society of portland, columbia springs, education, forest park, jackson bottom wetlands preserve, ridgefield national wildlife refuge, tryon creek state park, tualatin hills nature park, world forestry center
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REVIEW: Nature Play – Take Childhood Back documentary
Do we need another film about connecting children to nature? There’s Play Again, Nature Kids, Project Wild Thing, The Land, and some others I am sure. Will yet another film lead us in the direction we hope for our kids? … Continue reading
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BOOK: The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Every time I share about a new book of nature activities, I wonder if there is the need for more books of this nature. And while it may seem that one book or a few might be enough for a … Continue reading
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Monday thought of the week: touched
A thought: We have to let children touch nature, because that which is untouched is unloved. – Emma Marris (from her recent TED talk, see below)
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Monday thought of the week: a paradox
A thought: It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. – Leo Buscaglia, motivational speaker and professor in special education
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BOOK REVIEW: Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
In The Last Child in the Woods (2005), Richard Louv brought the need to connect children to nature into the public conversation, introducing to parents, teachers, community partners, and policy-makers the term “nature-deficit disorder,” and described the benefits of nature … Continue reading
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