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The Nature Journal Workshop
Live Nature Journaling workshop with John Muir Laws. Join John Muir Laws for weekly live nature Journaling workshops with tips, techniques, inspiration, teaching strategies, and interviews. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop. If special materials or class-specific downloads are available, you can find them here in the class description before the class.
All a buzz…
Join us for a discussion about bees, viruses, science illustration, and communicating about science and more. You've heard of the "Save the Bees" movement, but how are bees really doing? Join a conversation with Nina Sokolov where she describes the health of managed and wild bees in the US, and how you can help. Additionally,
Jack’s Back Journal Flip
Let's take a look at some of the things I learned about nature journaling this summer, a few new tricks up my sleeve... Join John Muir Laws for weekly live nature Journaling workshops with tips, techniques, inspiration, teaching strategies, and interviews. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop. If special materials or class-specific
Data Visualization with Miriam Morrill
How can we learn to think in pictures? Join fire ecologist Miriam Morrill for an exploration of beautiful data. Join John Muir Laws and fire ecologist Mirriam Morrill for a look at visualizing data from fire in your journal. All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary. Suggested donation: $20. Your donation helps
Wildlife Tracking for Nature Journaling
Join master tracker Casey McFarland for a discussion of tracking and nature journaling. What is wildlife tracking, and why is it so transformative to our experience in the wild world? Join Casey McFarland and John Muir Laws as we discuss what it means to interpret tracks, sign, and trails, and what makes the skill unique
Let’s draw antlers!
The buck stops here! learn how to draw antlers. Join John Muir Laws for weekly live nature Journaling workshops with tips, techniques, inspiration, teaching strategies, and interviews. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop. If special materials or class-specific downloads are available, you can find them here in the class description before the
Making Paper Mache Birds
Meet Nancy Overton and explore her beautiful methods for sculpting birds with everyday items. Nancy will give us a slide presentation of step-by-step photos of how she makes a bird: tools and materials, collecting reference photos, making a silhouette drawing, making wire silhouettes, putting the silhouettes together and filling in the frame, covering the frame
Measuring the Earth
Geometry literally means "Earth measure". Join us as we meet along a common meridian to celebrate math and measure our planet. With some simple geometry and some friends on Zoom, we can measure the polar circumference of the Earth. This task was first done by Eratosthenes (276 BCE – 195/194 BCE). We will watch shadows
Art and conservation: Snowy Plovers
Learn all about Snowy Plover life and conservation with Point Blue Scientists and learn tips to draw them in the field. Join John Muir Laws and special guest Kriss Neuman, Principal Ecologist in the Pacific Coast and Central Valley Group at Point Blue, who has worked to protect Snowy Plovers since 1996. All ages and experience
Nature Journaling Stratagies with Verena Hillgärtner
Explore nature journaling with Verena Hillgärtner. Join John Muir Laws and Verena Hillgärtner for a lively discussion of nature journaling. All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary. Nature Journaling is a wonderful tool to pay attention to the otherwise often overlooked and unloved beings of this world like weeds, pigeons, bugs, spiders