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Nature in a Nutshell for Kids: Over 100 Activities You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less
by
Jean Potter
An exciting, interactive way for children to explore the scientific principles at work in the natural world around them. Contains 100+ fast and easy activities running the gamut from how animals and plants grow to the formation of mountains and rivers.
Paperback, 148 pages
Published
February 6th 1995
by Jossey-Bass
(first published January 1995)
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"Remember guys," I warned my eight- and six-year-old children after supper, "tomorrow we start school up again." We had taken our customary April to June break from homeschooling. Now that it was too hot to be outside, we would spend our days exercising only mental muscles in the air conditioned living room.
"Me too?" my three-year-old piped up.
No, actually, I have Opinions about how a little person should spend his days to form roadways through that plastic brain: immersing himself in fantasies...more
"Me too?" my three-year-old piped up.
No, actually, I have Opinions about how a little person should spend his days to form roadways through that plastic brain: immersing himself in fantasies...more
What a great little book that requires little to no preparation and mostly just items found in nature...most of the activities are meant for your child to do the observing and thinking and reasoning with a little section on each page that gives a brief explanation...fits very well with my 'less is more' philosophy to education...I once heard a very wise teacher say "You don't have to teach a lot to teach a lot." ( :
Other titles by this author also sound intriguing, like 'Science in Seconds for K...more
Other titles by this author also sound intriguing, like 'Science in Seconds for K...more
The activities in this book are too simplistic to be of much worth. They are the types of things you would (should) come up with on your own (i.e., turning over a stone to see the bugs underneath). Note to self . . . do not buy this book.
Not as good as "Sharing Nature with Children" but do give some ideas for activities with kids.
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