Field Trips


Book Description

With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox. In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.




Family Field Trip


Book Description

With more than 40 family-friendly cultural activities and adventures, Family Field Trip makes it easy to incorporate moments of learning and exploration into life with kids. In this engaging guide, parents and caretakers will find simple-to-follow ideas and tips for cultural experiences the whole family can enjoy, whether they are at home, exploring the neighborhood, or taking a vacation. Drawing on a range of popular experiential educational techniques—including Montessori, World Schooling, Forest Schooling, and more—Family Field Trip is the perfect handbook for any family with young children and an invaluable resource for raising kids who will grow into curious, well-rounded citizens of the world. • Gives parents the tools and inspiration to turn the world into a giant field trip full of opportunities to teach children cultural appreciation • Provides parents with easy ways to incorporate learning, adventure, and exploration into both travel and daily life • Tackles a range of lessons and topics without being prescriptive or overwhelming By exploring sites, languages, and foods of the world, Family Field Trip is an inspiring guide to raise globally minded kids who appreciate art, food, music, nature, and more. Activities include starting a supper club to introduce kids to the basics of cooking, having conversations that encourage empathy and cross-cultural understanding, designing fun scavenger hunts for any kind of museum, exhibit, or park, packing for trips with kids, and more. • Perfect for parents, grandparents, and caregivers who aspire to raise open-minded world citizens with good taste • A lovely book for the adventurous, travel-loving family • Great for readers who enjoyed How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims, Atlas of Adventures by Rachel Williams, and Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman




Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible


Book Description

As parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right preschool, teach them to read, and get them involved in extracurriculars. We take our job as parents seriously. But are we also putting our time and energy into teaching them the Bible? Leading our kids to life through Scripture is not only doable, it's an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is studying God's Word as a family doesn't have to be hard or overly time-consuming. This book will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the tools and techniques to set up a family Bible-study habit. You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child's relationship with the Lord through his Word.




The Explorer's Notebook


Book Description

The Explorer's Notebook is a place to record field trips, vacations, and travels. Life is about creating moments and collecting memories. Whether you are exploring a patch of woods next to your home or a new city, you have a place to record all of your findings. This travel journal is designed for the nature lover, the museum lover, the traveler, and the explorer. It gives directions and suggestions, but leaves a lot of freedom to design a work of art based around your interests. We each have a unique view of the world and we learn different things from our experiences. This field trip journal is a place to get creative and record the parts of your field trip that were important to you. It provides spaces to draw, color, write, tape, glue, or smudge in all of your treasures from your journey. Homeschool Curriculum While not specifically for homeschool, this journal has a lot to offer the homeschool family. The pages offer repetition so it can be utilized as independent work after a homeschool field trip. Each page can be unique, but the repletion creates a guide to eliminate confusion. This journal also provides a place to record the time spent at each field trip for those of you who are required to count hours in your state.




Wonderfully Made


Book Description

The wonders of life from conception to birth Captures the wonder of our creation with great accuracy Understandable to young readers with beautiful illustrations




This Field Trip Stinks!


Book Description

The hilarious sequel to My School Stinks! about a young boy at his school full of animals as they embark on an adventure-filled field trip! Perfect for fans of Ryan T. Higgins's We Don't Eat Our Classmates, Elise Parsley's If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!, and the Magic Schoolbus adventures! Dear Diary, This morning, Mr. Grizzly announced we’re taking a field trip. I thought we’d study stars at the planetarium or dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum. But we’re going to study plants and animals. . . IN THE WILD! I’ve read enough books to know nature is FULL of poisonous plants, creepy crawlies, and ferocious beasts! Besides, isn’t our class wild enough? Peek into Stuart's journal as he and his class brave the wilderness together, encountering gross bugs, terrifying animals, and--worst of all--NO BATHROOMS in this field trip adventure. Praise for This Field Trip Stinks!: "A relatable tale that will bolster the spirits of readers dreading their own field trips." --Kirkus reviews




The Diary


Book Description

Brandy is a seventh grader who feels invisible. Her English class is given the assignment to keep a diary for a few weeks, and Brandy takes snippets of conversations from girls in her class and creates a make-believe world in which she is popular, loved and cared for. When real-life gets too painful, Brandy escapes the only way she knows.




A Guide to Great Field Trips


Book Description

Formerly published by Zephyr PressField trips help students develop lifelong learning skills, increase personal responsibility, and expand their world views. This comprehensive guide explores every aspect of conducting successful trips, from establishing sound learning goals to following up after the excursion. The author covers practical issues such as safety, transportation, permissions, chaperones, and meals.




Inner Field Trip


Book Description

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.




Informal Learning and Field Trips


Book Description

The author shows teachers how to incorporate constructivist philosophy and inquiry-based learning techniques for standards-aligned, off-site learning experiences and provides guidelines for developing corresponding classroom activities.