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Elementary Adventures SCIENCE AND NATURE EXPLORATIONS

Eco Kids Sticks and Stones: A Kid’s Guide to
Self-Sufficiency Building and Exploring in the Great
Handbook: STEAM Outdoors. Lennig.
Projects to Help Kids Discover a treasure trove
Make a Difference. of exciting outdoor
Bridgewater. building, engineering,
and artistic ideas in this
Emphasizing book. With simple tools
creativity, as well as and materials, a branch
science, technology, becomes a fishing pole,
engineering, and math, this book logs turn into a seesaw,
presents 28 activities that promote learning- twigs become a log
by-doing in an environmentally sustainable cabin, and stones become art. Discusses
manner. Appropriate for children ages 7—14 and tools, toys, and games kids can create right
often needing adult supervision, these activities Bringing STEM to the Elementary outside their door. Incorporates STEAM principles
revolve around the home, yard, garden, electrical with design challenges that can be tackled solo or
grid, and bike path. EE-27054. $14.95. Classroom. Froschauer, NSTA. Sensitive to the in groups. Ages 8—12. B-28127. $19.95.
needs of pre-K—5 students and busy teachers,
this book provides classroom-tested STEM Forest Club: A Year of
The Power of investigations. The 36 NGSS-aligned lessons are
Questioning: organized into grade-level bands and designed Activities, Crafts, and
Guiding Student to teach across disciplines, promote problem- Exploring Nature.
Investigations. solving skills, and expose students to STEM Hirschmann. With forest
school-themed crafts and
McGough, Nyberg. careers. B-25183. $35.95. activities for all seasons,
Using a three-part outdoor exploration can
instructional be enjoyed year-round!
model grounded Schoolyard- Outdoor activities are
in questioning, Enhanced Learning: embellished with crafts
investigation, and Using the Outdoors and nature information and serve
assessment, this resource as inspiration for forest schools, after school
helps you integrate inquiry strategies with as an Instructional programs, nature centers, and families interested
the Next Generation Science Standards, the Tool, K—8. in reconnecting children to their environment.
Common Core State Standards, and STEM. Broda. Combining The book is divided by season, providing a
Grades K—5. B-24332. $24.95. background theory year-round resource for creative explorations for
with practical children ages 7—12.
Kid’s Guide To suggestions, B-28123. $15.95 hardcover.
Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning presents
Exploring Nature. the case for outdoor learning and offers a Into Nature: A
Brooklyn Botanic step-by-step planning process to enhance,
Garden, Veres. Created maintain, and fund outdoor sites and learning Creative Field Guide
by educators at the activities on school grounds. B-16180. $25.95. and Journal. Frey,
Brooklyn Botanic Totton. This collection
Garden, this resource of 70 mindful activities
offers guidance for 101 Nature Activities unleashes creativity
teaching children to for Kids. Sanborn, while helping
explore environments Rundle. Provides engage with natural
as a naturalist does. field-tested, hands-on surroundings—in a
Provides descriptions of 24 adventures activities and challenges park, in the garden,
that introduce children to plant and animal in outdoor settings and even indoors. From
ecosystems in wooded areas, the beach, and including backyards the founders of The Mindfulness Project, here
a city park. Projects include keeping a journal, and parks, as well as are life-affirming ways to help readers maximize
conducting field experiments, and looking for forests, meadows, the benefits of being in nature, which has been
the signs of changing seasons. Encourages ponds or beaches. For proven to increase happiness and cultivate calm.
exploration with all five senses. B-24282. $12.95. children ages 7—13. Sketch, explore, and record observations as you
B-20031. $19.95. find moments of mindfulness in everyday life.
EE-27061. $14.95.
Howl Like a Wolf!
Learn to Think, Teaching Green: The Wild Year Book:
Move, and Act The Elementary Things to Do Outdoors
Like 15 Amazing Years. Grant, Littlejohn
(Editors). Features 50 through the Seasons.
Animals. Yale. of the best teaching Danks, Schofield. Playing
What does it feel like strategies and outdoors helps children
to “see” with your activities from Green develop imagination,
ears like a bat or go Teacher magazine, keep fit, and develop
through a full body all updated and observation and
transformation revised for this analysis skills. Includes
like a frog? Can you wriggle in and anthology. Covers a 70 activities for children ages
out of tight places like an octopus, camouflage wide spectrum of topics, from predator- 6—9. Play camouflage games in spring, make
yourself like a leopard, or do a waggle dance like prey relationships to air pollution to watershed enormous bubbles in the summer, and create ice
a honeybee? An imaginative approach to learning education. Includes practical projects and new mobiles in the winter. Ideas for forest schools,
that fosters curiosity, empathy, and dramatic learning strategies for incorporating green after school programs, nature centers, and
play. Ages 6—10. B-27066. $18.95 hardcover. themes into school classrooms. EE-13453. $25.95. families. B-28126. $14.95.

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