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Tools that Help Children Connect with Nature
December 20, 2018
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Education should not be the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

The popular book, Bringing the Outside In, by Sandra Duncan and Jody Martin, includes a list of tools to have on hand indoors to help children explore and appreciate nature items. These tools could also be equally valuable outdoors:

“Magnifiers, prisms, balance scales, specimen containers, microscopes, tape measurers, measuring cups, and documentation tools.” The authors also suggest that classrooms “infuse elements of beauty and objects of provocation such as honeycomb, or moss-covered twigs to peak children’s interest in natural objects.” 




Bringing the Outside In

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Bringing the Outside In offers nature-based experiences to encourage educators and young children to bring the natural world into the early childhood classroom. Each hands-on, open-ended, and sensory-oriented experience is designed to spark discovery and imagination; encourage conversations and collaborations; and allow young children to develop a sense of wonder and get to know the natural world.

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