Keeping a Nature Journal, Second Edition

Hone your powers of observation as you delve into the wonders of the natural world. Filled with beautiful illustrations, this excellent resource offers tips for documenting what you see, pointers on sketching and watercoloring, suggestions for keeping accurate records, ideas for teaching nature journaling to a group, and much more. Ideal for city and country dwellers alike! (Includes some "New Age" poetry.) 214 pages, softcover from Workman.

"Draw what you see" is what I've always told my children when it comes to making a Nature Notebook. Perhaps the tulip they spot at the park is a purple tulip, not the red tulip typically pictured in textbooks. Thus a purple tulip goes into the Notebook. The date of the "find" goes at the top of the page with its common name in print and the Latin in cursive. Underneath the drawing, observations are recorded: where it was found, its behavior (if it's a bird, insect, mammal), etc. Nature poems and the words of a hymn can also be copied onto the pages. It's that simple.

For those looking for help in making a Nature Notebook, Keeping a Nature Journal provides ideas for every season. It has pointers on sketching and watercoloring. The suggestions and advice are just as interesting and helpful for the adult student as they are for the young. Consequently, you too, teacher, will be invited to make a Notebook of your own. For the homeschool co-op, the chapter on how to teach nature journaling to a group of children seems useful.

Faithfully set aside an hour a week to be outdoors with children, observing God's creation and recording it. At the end of a year, each Notebook will be filled with an array of observations representative of firsthand scientific experience. I assure you, these Notebooks will become precious keepsakes - more precious than a pile of classroom worksheets. (An excellent teacher's resource yet contains some "New Age" poems).

—Karen

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