The lad and I have done a variety of things as we've studied nature.
We've drawn pictures of things we have seen
We've drawn pictures of things we have seen
We taken up animals we are interested in learning about and found pictures of them and categorized them. This was just old magazines and calendar pictures. The lad had so much fun doing this....and it's good for most any age. Helps show what they are interested in as well. :)
I created a page where we can put up a picture of the animal tracks and where we found it, and the lad could draw a picture of it. I unfortunately can't find it! Nor can I find any examples of it. We stopped doing it after a while as the lad said "no mom, can't we just watch them and learn?" So now we capture things and the lad has fun learning from them that way.
That's the thing eh? Children go through cycles of how they want to learn about the world around them, and one adapts to that. :) It's all good.
There are some useful sources out there for making or using nature journals. The following are pages I have used.
The nature study pages from Patriots of the Republic.
Nadene of Practical pages had a nature study journal that we used off and on as well.
NotebookingPages.com has a lovely nature journal. I get it with my membership which is totally worth it by the way. :)
When you journal you can journal all sorts of things and even create graphs to go with them. You can go out one day and count how many buggy type critters you can find and document that one a graph. You can do this flower/flower colours, types of trees, birds, animals etc that you see.
That's the thing eh? Children go through cycles of how they want to learn about the world around them, and one adapts to that. :) It's all good.
There are some useful sources out there for making or using nature journals. The following are pages I have used.
The nature study pages from Patriots of the Republic.
Nadene of Practical pages had a nature study journal that we used off and on as well.
NotebookingPages.com has a lovely nature journal. I get it with my membership which is totally worth it by the way. :)
When you journal you can journal all sorts of things and even create graphs to go with them. You can go out one day and count how many buggy type critters you can find and document that one a graph. You can do this flower/flower colours, types of trees, birds, animals etc that you see.
Nature journaling isn't just writing things down, it is graphing, research, maps, drawing, art, plotting, observation, science, geography and so much more.
So much can be learned from studying the nature in the world around you and taking the time to document what you learn. :)
Have fun with it!
So much can be learned from studying the nature in the world around you and taking the time to document what you learn. :)
Have fun with it!
Some additional Ideas to get you started:
How to make a nature journal.
Sierra Club.
California native plant society.
Nature journaling with Kids.
And please, go check out what other TOS crew Folk have to say as well. :)
How to make a nature journal.
Sierra Club.
California native plant society.
Nature journaling with Kids.
And please, go check out what other TOS crew Folk have to say as well. :)
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