How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention
The first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places.

In their workshops, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills (especially from those who profess to have none), connect journaling to educational standards, and incorporate journaling into longer lessons. This book, expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling puts together curriculum plans, advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can leap into journaling with their students. The approaches are designed to work in a range of ecosystems and settings, and are suitable for classroom teachers, outdoor educators, camp counselors, and homeschooling parents.

Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists show how to put each lesson into practice. Field-tested by over a hundred educators, this book includes dozens of activities that easily support the Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards—and, just as important, it will show kids and mentors alike how to recognize the wonder and intrigue in their midst.

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How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention
The first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places.

In their workshops, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills (especially from those who profess to have none), connect journaling to educational standards, and incorporate journaling into longer lessons. This book, expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling puts together curriculum plans, advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can leap into journaling with their students. The approaches are designed to work in a range of ecosystems and settings, and are suitable for classroom teachers, outdoor educators, camp counselors, and homeschooling parents.

Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists show how to put each lesson into practice. Field-tested by over a hundred educators, this book includes dozens of activities that easily support the Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards—and, just as important, it will show kids and mentors alike how to recognize the wonder and intrigue in their midst.

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How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention

How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention

How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention

How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention

Overview

The first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places.

In their workshops, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills (especially from those who profess to have none), connect journaling to educational standards, and incorporate journaling into longer lessons. This book, expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling puts together curriculum plans, advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can leap into journaling with their students. The approaches are designed to work in a range of ecosystems and settings, and are suitable for classroom teachers, outdoor educators, camp counselors, and homeschooling parents.

Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists show how to put each lesson into practice. Field-tested by over a hundred educators, this book includes dozens of activities that easily support the Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards—and, just as important, it will show kids and mentors alike how to recognize the wonder and intrigue in their midst.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597144902
Publisher: Heyday
Publication date: 04/28/2020
Pages: 296
Sales rank: 398,541
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Jack is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature through keeping illustrated nature journals and understanding science. His work intersects science, art, and mindfulness. Trained as a wildlife biologist and an associate of the California Academy of Sciences, he observes the world with rigorous attention. He looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. Attention, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking are not gifts, but skills that grow with training and deliberate practice. As an educator and author, Jack teaches techniques and supports routines that develop these skills to make them a part of everyday life.

Laws has written and illustrated several books including How to Teach Nature Drawing and Journaling (2020), The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (2016), The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012), Sierra Birds: a Hiker’s Guide (2004), The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada (2007), and The Laws Pocket Guide Set to the San Francisco Bay Area (2009), all published by Heyday. He is a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his “Naturalists Notebook” column.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE NATURE JOURNAL QUICKSTART GUIDE (inside front cover)

FOREWORD BY AMY TAN

INTRODUCTION

  • Why We Teach Nature Journaling
  • Why Nature Journaling?
  • You Can Do This, and It Is Worth It
  • MANAGING THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
    • How to Lead Journaling Activities
    • Nature Journaling In Different Contexts

NATURE JOURNALING ACTIVITIES

  • Activity Format

GETTING STARTED: INTRODUCTORY JOURNALING TECHNIQUES AND ACTIVITIES

  • Example Journal Pages 
    • Use Words, Pictures, and Numbers
    • Mix It Up
  • Activites
    • I Notice, I Wonder, It Reminds Me
    • My Secret Plant
    • To Each Its Own
    • Comparison
    • Zoom In, Zoom Out

OBSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

  • Example Journal Pages
    • Look Big, Look Small
    • Make Comparisons and Study Categories
    • Get Lost in Wonder
  • Activities
    • Collection or Field Guide
    • Timeline
    • String Safari
    • Animal Encounters
    • Species Account
    • Forest Karaoke: Transcribing Birdsong
    • Soundscape Maps

INQUIRY, INVESTIGATION, AND SCIENTIFIC THINKING

  • Intentional Curiosity and Inquiry
  • The Crosscutting Concepts
  • Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why
  • International Baccalaureate Key Concepts
  • How Do You Answer Your Questions?
  • Example Journal Pages
    • Ask Questions and Think Like a Scientist
    • Practiced Precision
    • Nature Puzzles
    • Follow Curiosity Chains
  • Activities
    • Mysteries and Explanations
    • Questioning Questions
    • Mapping
    • Landscape Cross Section
    • Phenomenon Model
    • Team Observation

WORDS: ARTICULATED THOUGHT AND STORYTELLING

  • Writing to Think and Observe
  • Example Journal Pages
    • Find Poems Within and Around You
    • Reflection, Connection, and Joy
    • Practice Scientific Storytelling
    • What Pictures Cannot Show
  • Activities
    • Writing to Observe, Writing to Think
    • Event Comic
    • Event Map
    • Poetry of Place and Moment
    • Sit Spot

PICTURES: DRAWING AND VISUAL THINKING

  • Observational Drawing
  • Observational Drawing, Step-by-Step
  • Building New Skills: Basic Drawing Exercises
  • Drawing Tricks and Tips: Instruction for Students
  • Page Structure and Layout
  • Example Journal Pages
    • Think with Pictures
    • Balancing Flexibility and Structure
    • Look, and Look Again
  • Activities
    • Inside Out
    • Nature Blueprints
    • Infographic
    • Photo, Pencil, and Found-Object Collage

NUMBERS: QUANTIFICATION AND MATHEMATICAL THINKING

  • Numbers and Quantification
  • Making Quantification Tool Kits
  • Example Jounral Pages
    • Show Where the Numbers Came From
    • Use Numbers to Find the Pattern
  • Activities
    • Hidden Figures
    • Biodiversity Inventory
    • Timed Observations
    • Change Over Time

INCORPORATING JOURNALING INTO LESSONS, FRAMEWORKS, AND ASSESSMENTS

  • Journaling Over Time
  • Developing Skills: Ideas, Practice, and Feedback
  • Grading and Evaluation
  • Evaluation Rubric
  • From Activities to Longer Lessons
  • Journaling in Units
  • The Next Generation Science Standards
  • The Common Core State Standards
  • Teaching Science and Inquiry: A Deeper Dive

FINAL THOUGHTS

APPENDICES

  • A: Tools and Materials
  • B: Activity Summaries, Learning Goals, and Possible Phenomena
  • C: NGSS Connections
  • D: Evaluation Rubric
  • E: Cut-and-Paste Nature Journal Strategie
  • F: Cut-and-Paste Quantification Tool Kit

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Naturalist Journal Contributors

About the Authors

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