This book is a wonderful trek through the outdoors that will draw your children outside to explore. Using the book, you will track animals in your backyard, learn about your neighborhood trees, identify the bird friends in your yard, and even begin a nature journal.
If you have middle grade children, you could use this book as the basis for a homeschool science course filled with art and writing opportunities! You could even put everything else aside for a few weeks and use this book as a unit study, working through one chapter each week.
Any of us with children know that January is a time of the year that can be dull and unexciting for our children. Schooling is getting old, the weather is not warm and inviting. It seems to our children that spring will never, ever come again! But this wonderful book can help your child start the new year with fresh, owl eyes!
Description from the Publisher
Children will see the natural world around them with brand new eyes, as they learn to follow its signs, hear its language, and understand its secrets. With this unique and compelling book written by expert environmental educator Devin Franklin, kids aged 8 to 13 will build their own relationship with nature through finding a “Sit Spot” — an outdoor space in the backyard, in a field or in the woods, in a vacant lot or a city park — where they can stop, observe, and become familiar with the flora and fauna that live there.
From the Six Arts of Tracking (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) and making a habitat map to walking in smooth silence like a fox and learning the basics of bird language, exploration exercises lead young readers on a fascinating journey of discovery as they watch, listen, map, interpret, and write about the sounds, sights, scents, and patterns they encounter. With journaling prompts, map-making activities, and observational tracking pages throughout, Put On Your Owl Eyes is an interactive and thought-provoking guidebook.
About the Book
Author: Devin Franklin
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781635860221
Publisher: Storey Publishing
