I had a GREAT Instagram Live conversation last night with Anne Stires, a pioneering educator in the field of nature-based education, and the Founder/Director of the Juniper Hill School, a forest school in Alna, Maine. Anne gave me a list of resources for educators and families. Here it is!
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Here is the outdoor learning position statement (Inside-Outside: Nature-based Educators Network at insideoutside.org is an incredible resource for folks...). The position statement is attached to this email as a .pdf. Please share far and wide. It is also on the Inside-Outside website as a link from the Home Page banner. Sorry that not all the resources are hyperlinked...I am busy prepping for a webinar for Natural Start on the Safety in Nature-based Programming/Benefits of Risk-Taking. I did remember a few pivotal elementary books to include.
1) Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum by Sarah Anderson. Elementary work...and a classmate of mine from Antioch University NE where we did our graduate work.
2) Here are a few wonderful web based resources: Dirigo Learning (Juniper teacher Robin Huntley founded this) and, of course, Mary Holland's Naturally Curious blog. Natural State Alliance and The Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers, Wilderness Awareness School, and there are many, many more.
3) Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, Jon Young, et. al.
4) Taking Inquiry Outdoors: Reading, Writing, and Science Beyond the Classroom Walls, integrated outdoor learning Barbara Bourne
5) Messy Maths, math for early childhood and elemenary Juliette Robertson
6) Go Wild! Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield
7) Doing What Scientists Do, elementary integrated science Ellen Doris
8) Place-Based Education and Children and Nature: Design Principles for Educators--both nature-, place-based elementary guidebooks, David Sobel
9) Nature-based Preschool Professional Practices Guidebook NAAEE Natural Start Alliance
10) Forest Days Handbook by Eliza Minnucci
11) Establishing a Nature Preschool by Rachel Larimore