Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations by Wilson, Ruth

Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780876593745)

Vendor: Ruth Wilson
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Format: Paperback
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Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations by Wilson, Ruth

Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations

$19.95
Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations by Wilson, Ruth

Learning Is in Bloom: Cultivating Outdoor Explorations

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow, as more parents and educators become passionate about bringing learning outdoors and letting children explore outside the bounds of traditional lessons. In the full-color Learning Is in Bloom, teachers and caregivers will find 40 hands-on activities effective in engaging young children in investigating nature, both indoors and outdoors, on the school grounds, and on excursions around the neighborhood. Through fostering a love of nature, the activities promote all areas of early childhood education and development. Readers will learn how to support child-directed explorations within all kinds of learning in a nature-rich setting, including: Science investigations Mathematical thinking Art explorations Literacy development
Award Winner
  • 2016 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award
  • 2016 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award


Author: Ruth Wilson
ISBN-10: 0876593740
ISBN-13: 9780876593745
Publisher: Gryphon House
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
By Ruth Wilson
By Ruth Wilson
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Dr. Ruth Wilson works as an educational consultant and curriculum writer with special expertise in the area of early childhood environmental education and other initiatives in connecting young children with nature. Dr. Wilson recently worked with the Brookfield Zoo in developing their NatureStart professional development program and served as a curriculum writer for California's Education and Environment Initiative. Dr. Wilson also worked with Sesame Street in designing nature education programs and served as an evaluator with the nature preschool at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee. Dr. Wilson's career includes working as a classroom teacher in both regular and special education settings and as a teacher educator for over ten years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

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