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  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn the basics of bird wing structure to help you draw birds of prey in flight. We will also explore simple foreshortening in outstretched wings. Download, print, and cut out these paper models before class. Click Here to Join the Zoom Workshop! Passcode: 187351 All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary, Read More