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Braiding Sweetgrass
INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS By Robin Wall Kimmerer |
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You can find out more about this book and workshops they offer on their website: Natural Curiosities.
Natural Curiosity supports an awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The Indigenous lens in this edition represents a cross-cultural encounter supporting what can become an ongoing dialogue and evolution of practice in environmental inquiry. Some important questions are raised that challenge us to think in very different ways about things as fundamental as the meaning of knowledge. There are many examples of educators taking up approaches with youth. |
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The Walking Curriculum is an innovative interdisciplinary resource for educators K-12 who want to take student learning outside school walls. Walking Curriculum activities can be used in any context to develop students’ Sense of Place and to enrich their understanding of curricular topics.
You can find out more about this book on the website: ImaginED |
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Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature by Jon Young
Coyote mentoring is a method of learning that has been refined over thousands of years, based on instilling the need-to-know. Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, 2nd Edition reveals this approach and what happens to student and teacher during the mentoring process. Strategies like questioning, storytelling, tracking, mapping, and practicing survival skills will inspire student curiosity and encourage self-sufficiency. Background information will help parents, teachers and others feel more confident in introducing children to new ways of experiencing and learning about the natural world. |
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Journal Keeping is one of the most powerful ways to learn, reflect and make sense of our lives is through journal keeping.
This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional development—particularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals’ potential to foster college students’ learning, fluency and voice, and creative thinking |
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Whether you're in the therapy office, a classroom, in the city, or the countryside, using nature-based activities with children is always possible, and incredibly therapeutic. By integrating these activities with mindfulness, therapists and educators can harness the power of both treatments, and help children become calm, alert and happier human beings. Mindfulness and Nature-Based Therapeutic Techniques for Children provides evidence-based, practical, accessible and FUN activities
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Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and growing body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults. More than just raising an alarm, Louv offers practical solutions and simple ways to heal the broken bond—and many are right in our own backyard.
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Joseph Cornell has won international acclaim through his landmark book, Sharing Nature with Children®. Since its publication in 1979, Cornell has toured worldwide, offering his popular nature awareness workshops to tens of thousands of teachers, parents, youth leaders, and naturalists. A prominent environmental educator describes him as “one of the most inspiring educators in the field today.” He is the founder and president of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet’s most widely respected nature awareness programs. |
Order all of Joseph Cornell on his website Sharing Nature with Children
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This resource has been developed to support new ideas to trigger children’s curiosity and learning. This resource is divided into two sections: the first provides an overview of key theoretical components for formulating a philosophy about outdoor play and learning. The second section provides a variety of ideas that support children in exploring and creating new ways of knowing from common materials that can be found or placed within their outdoor spaces.
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Order Nature Ideas here.
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The book that launched the movement to get kids outside, Last Child in the Woods is the groundbreaking work from Richard Louv who directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation-he calls it nature deficit-to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder, and depression.
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Order through Algonquin Books
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When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives. In honor of the book's 10th anniversary, Hyperion is proud to be releasing the book with a new afterword by the author, and to share this wonderful book with an even larger audience
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In today’s world, we all experience some hectic days in our careers, family, and social lives. But if you are always stressed, then you need to closely examine how your busyness is affecting your quality of life.
The solution is to adopt the Hygge lifestyle that encompasses the positivity and enjoyment that one can get from simple everyday things. By incorporating Hygge into your life, you’ll discover how to put down the phone, pick up that mixing bowl, paint brush, or other dream you’ve been putting off and immerse yourself in the present with warmth and connection. |
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In Childhood and Nature, noted educator David Sobel makes the case that meaningful connections with the natural world don't begin in the rainforest or arctic, but in our own backyards and communities. Based on his observations of recurrent play themes around the world, Sobel articulates seven design principles that can guide teachers in structuring learning experiences for children. Place-based education projects that make effective use of the principles are detailed throughout the book. And while engaged in these projects, students learn language arts, math, science, social studies, as well as essential problem-solving and social skills through involvement with nature and their communities.
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Balanced and Barefoot is a "must read" for anyone who works with children. Pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults.
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A leader in the field of nature education, author and founder of the Sharing Nature movement, Joseph Cornell released a 20th-anniversary edition of his classic book, drawing on a wealth of experience in nature education. With new nature games, favorites from the field and Cornell's insightful commentary.
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Play expert Peter Gray's Free to Learn draws on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history to show us that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. Free to Learn suggests that it's time to stop asking what's wrong with our children, and start asking what's wrong with the system.
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The book provides additional information for teaching in the outdoors, the core skills needed for successful experiences, and 21 activity units composed of 140 lessons. Each chapter presents the purpose of the lessons, the learning outcomes, equipment required, operating principles, skill sets, and risk management. This overview is followed by a series of detailed lesson plans. The resource contains everything needed for delivering each activity.
Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education is a great resource for teachers and outdoor leaders, grounding them in the essentials of outdoor education, streamlining their preparation, and paving the way for a smooth delivery of effective outdoor education. |
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I love my World is a new guidebook to rekindle the naturally playful spirit and develop a deep connection with nature from an early age. Full of bushcraft, environmental art, nature awareness and outdoor play activities, as well as mentoring tips and beautiful images, this book will make you want to pack your bags, step out and celebrate our wonderful world. It's for parents, outdoor educators, play rangers, forest school leaders, teachers, aunties, uncles...in fact anyone with a love of our world who spends time outdoors and enjoys sharing it with other people.
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Dirty Teaching
One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it and this book will give you the confidence to do just that. Drawing on academic research, Juliet explains why learning outdoors is so beneficial and provides plenty of tips and activities to help you to integrate outdoor learning into your teaching practice, providing a broad range of engaging outdoor experiences for your students. Order through Thinking Press |
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In Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Juliet Robertson offers a rich resource of ideas that will inspire you to tap into the endless supply of patterns, textures, colours and quantities of the outdoors and deepen children’s understanding of maths through hands-on experience.
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Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet. Cultivating ecological understanding requires reimagining the human world as part of, not apart from, nature. Describing the key principles of an approach to teaching called Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE), this book offers a practical guide for all teachers (K–12).
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Magazines and Journals
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This publication is devoted to bringing articles, inspiration and creative ideas to those who play a key role in shaping the first five years of a child's life! Nature play, water play and outdoor fun greatly impact early childhood education and the health of our children. It is so important that we recognize the significance of outdoor play on children development and encourage families to spend more time outside!
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Order the magazine developed by the Reggio Network in the Online store
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Published four times a year, Pathways is the voice of outdoor education in Ontario. Each year finds the prose, poetry and art of some 70 individuals. Topics range from the philosophical to the practical, from elementary to post-secondary levels, and from urban to wilderness settings. Authors include both founding and new members as well as kindred spirits from elsewhere.
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