Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations - Softcover

Wilson PhD, Ruth

 
9780876593745: Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0876593740 ISBN 13: 9780876593745
Publisher: Gryphon House,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow, as more parents and educators become passionate about bringing learning outdoors and letting children explore outside the bounds of traditional lessons. In the full-color Learning Is in Bloom, teachers and caregivers will find 40 hands-on activities effective in engaging young children in investigating nature, both indoors and outdoors, on the school grounds, and on excursions around the neighborhood. Through fostering a love of nature, the activities promote all areas of early childhood education and development. Readers will learn how to support child-directed explorations within all kinds of learning in a nature-rich setting, including: Science investigations Mathematical thinking Art explorations Literacy development
Award Winner!

  • 2016 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award
  • 2016 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award

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About the Author

Dr. Ruth Wilson works as an educational consultant and curriculum writer with special expertise in the area of early childhood environmental education and other initiatives in connecting young children with nature. Dr. Wilson recently worked with the Brookfield Zoo in developing their NatureStart professional development program and served as a curriculum writer for California's Education and Environment Initiative. Dr. Wilson also worked with Sesame Street in designing nature education programs and served as an evaluator with the nature preschool at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee. Dr. Wilson's career includes working as a classroom teacher in both regular and special education settings and as a teacher educator for over ten years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She works with Children and Nature Network (C&NN) as curator of their research center.

From the Back Cover

The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow. Many excellent resources and guidlines explain the what and the why of early childhood environmental education, but the guidlines aren't enough. You also need the how- and that's what this book is all about.

Learning is in Bloom offers 40 hands-on activities to help children connect with nature. Discover ways to nurture their curiosity, wonder, awareness, excitement, and understanding of the world around them. Choose from activities that support learning aout all sorts of habitats, how plants grow, what seeds do, and what animals need to thrive. Learn how to support:
  • science investigations
  • mathmatical thinking
  • art explorations, and
  • literacy development
-all outdoors!

From the Inside Flap

The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow. Many excellent resources and guidlines explain the what and the why of early childhood environmental education, but the guidlines aren't enough. You also need the how- and that's what this book is all about.

Learning is in Bloom offers 40 hands-on activities to help children connect with nature. Discover ways to nurture their curiosity, wonder, awareness, excitement, and understanding of the world around them. Choose from activities that support learning aout all sorts of habitats, how plants grow, what seeds do, and what animals need to thrive. Learn how to support:
  • science investigations
  • mathmatical thinking
  • art explorations, and
  • literacy development
-all outdoors!

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Gryphon House,U.S.
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0876593740
ISBN 13 
9780876593745
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208