No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard (Take a Walk Series) - Softcover

Kirkland, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970975457 ISBN 13: 9780970975454

Publisher: Stillwater Pub, 2007

Synopsis

No Student Left Indoors is your opportunity to learn and teach about our planet by helping your students to create a field guide to your schoolyard. Whether you're a nature buff or nature-phobe, a literary genius or writing impaired, artistically talented or one who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and teaching gift or challenged students in an urban, suburban, or rural school?you'll wonder why you didn't think of this before.

You'll learn:

• Who can participate in and benefit from a schoolyard study
• What those benefits are
• Where to look for nature in your schoolyard
• When to conduct your studies
• How to teach students to discover, observe, and record the nature in your schoolyard
• Why everyone is talking about No Student Left Indoors

This is a project for a class, grade, or entire school. It can be a long-term project based on inquiry, investigation, and hands-on learning, The project connects science, language arts, history, creative arts, and technology.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Kirkland is a naturalist and photographer whose work has been featured on National Public Radio and Animal Planet TV, and in such magazines as Family Circle, Green Teacher, Parenting, and Parents. She is the author of the Take a Walk series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stillwater Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970975457
• ISBN 13: 9780970975454
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: Kirkland Guy, Burke Dorothy, Palaisa Melanie