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Category: Nature Education
Teaching techniques that are useful for outdoor educators and parents exposing children to nature.
NJEF Why Nature Journaling? Part 2
Continuing from an earlier discussion, the Nature Journal Educators Forum returns to explore how can we engage students and show them that nature journaling is worth their time. This week’s conversation dives deeper into intrinsic motivation. Read More
NJEF Why Should They Care? Part 1
How can we engage students and show them that nature journaling is relevant, useful, and worth their time? How can we help them learn how to care about nature as a whole? The Nature Journal Educator’s Forum explores these questions this week, with another session to come later. Read More
NJEF Journaling With Your Family
What do you do to inspire your family to join in with your nature journaling? How do you help make it theirs? And how can you adjust if they’re not having it today? Join John Muir Laws and the Nature Journal Educator’s Forum as we explore this topic, inspired by Jack’s recent trip to Ecuador Read More
NJEF Astronomy Journals
How can we use our nature journals to teach about astronomy – both to record our observations and to visualize ideas and/or our place in the universe? The Nature Journal Educators Forum gathers to discuss. Read More
Online Hospitality Study with Catherine Sky
Have you ever wondered about what makes our nature journaling Zoom sessions so engaging and enjoyable? Last Spring, Catherine Sky, a graduate student in the School of Education at Sonoma State University conducted a study on online teaching and learning practices in the nature journaling community. She will present her findings on online hospitality within Read More
Thinking Like a Scientist workshop
Enjoy this workshop from the 2021 Charlotte Masson Global Conference. The Charlotte Mason System is a rich homeschooling program that integrates journaling as part of a student’s broad education. Click here to watch the workshop on Vimeo. Read More
NJEF How to Start a Nature Journal Club
Nature Journal Clubs are great ways to build community and skills. You do not need to be an experienced journaler or artist to start one. John Muir Laws will share his thoughts and ideas, and we will crowdsource the educator community for more ideas on starting and sustaining a nature journal club in your area. Read More
NJEF Scientific Visualization and the Moon
In this session of the Nature Journal Educators Forum, we look at visualization as a tool for understanding natural phenomena, using the phases of the moon as a jumping off point. During this session, John Muir Laws mentions a previous class taught by Amy Schleser, called “Doodling Diagrams”. To see a recording of that class, Read More
DIY Nature Journal Bags for Families and Classrooms
Gena Richman is one of those teachers you wish you had when you were a kid. She taught generations of students at Mary Collins School at Cherry Valley. Nature Journaling was a part of every student’s ongoing education. Her classes went on regular field trips to nearby Magnolia Park (walking distance) where she progressively built Read More