Tools that Help Children Connect with Nature

12/20/2018

Tools that Help Children Connect with Nature

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.”

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