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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Mindset
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Mindset
How do we encourage the habits of mind that will help students engage with nature journaling, push themselves to go deeper, think critically, and become lifelong learners? Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Each meeting Read More
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Snow Leopards: Conservation & Art
Snow Leopards: Conservation & Art
John Muir Laws will lead this enjoyable and educational drawing class, co-hosted by Marcia Sivek of BeProvided Conservation Radio and the Snow Leopard Conservancy team. While receiving instruction on how to draw this magnificent cat, learn about snow leopards and the conservation efforts of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. This activity is for everyone – Read More
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How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal: A 2-part class in partnership with Audubon
How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal: A 2-part class in partnership with Audubon
How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal Why is it so challenging to learn and remember the plumage, songs, and details of the lives of birds? What if there were simple tricks to help you observe birds more deeply and remember your experiences more vividly? How can you get more out of every Read More
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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Family Journaling
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Family Journaling
What works to get your family to journal together? How can you make keeping a nature journal a part of your family routines? How can parents role model the behaviors they wish to see in their children? Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, Read More
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Botanical Illustration 4: Foreshortening Cone Shaped Flowers
Botanical Illustration 4: Foreshortening Cone Shaped Flowers
Join John Muir Laws as he investigates how to draw and foreshorten cone-shaped flowers. Most flowers do not hold the petals in a flat plane. You will find the petals slightly to significantly inclined in a cone. This changes the way the flower is foreshortened. Learn the principles behind drawing flowers with these angles. Print Read More
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How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal: A 2-part class in partnership with Audubon
How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal: A 2-part class in partnership with Audubon
How and Why to Keep a Birder’s Field Journal Why is it so challenging to learn and remember the plumage, songs, and details of the lives of birds? What if there were simple tricks to help you observe birds more deeply and remember your experiences more vividly? How can you get more out of every Read More
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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Classroom Culture and Peer to Peer Sharing
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Classroom Culture and Peer to Peer Sharing
How can you create a classroom community that encourages inquiry, journaling, and peer to peer discourse and sharing? How do you establish these values, what happens when you do? Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Read More
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Botanical Illustration 5: Curling and twisting petals and leaves
Botanical Illustration 5: Curling and twisting petals and leaves
Now that we understand the basics of foreshortening flowers and flat leaves, we turn our attention to individual petals with natural and organic curves and twists. You may see the top and the bottom of a curved petal. Bring a thick clear plastic bag (such as a ziplock storage bag) scissors a permanent sharpie pen Read More
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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Nature Journaling with Elders and Intergenerational Groups
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Nature Journaling with Elders and Intergenerational Groups
What is it like to introduce nature journaling with older adults? What is it like to hold intergenerational journaling events? Practical advice for Nature Journal Clubs and extended families. Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Read More
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Botanical Illustration 6: Putting it all together
Botanical Illustration 6: Putting it all together
Now it is time to take all your botanical illustration techniques and combine them to draw flowers that have a foundation of structure and geometry but also have lively curling and twisting petals. Join John Muir Laws as he walks through the process of drawing a complex and curled iris. Don't be shy, you can Read More
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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Connecting with Other Lessons and Routines
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum: Connecting with Other Lessons and Routines
Our schedules are already full. How can we integrate nature journaling with existing lessons and learning objectives? How can journaling be brought into more aspects of learning? Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Each meeting Read More