My bookshelf·Index No. 0379

How to Teach Nature Journaling

John Muir Laws·Heyday·2020·296 pages
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The companion to Laws’s Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, and it’s built for anybody leading a group — teachers, naturalists, parents, camp staff. Forty-plus field activities with the actual instructions, timing, and prompts, all organized around three questions Laws teaches everybody to ask: I notice, I wonder, it reminds me of. The point isn’t art. It’s attention, and the drawing is a tool for slowing a kid down in front of a leaf. Free to download, aligned to school standards if you need that, and it works just as well on adults. I keep both books in the living room within easy reach.

How to Teach Nature Journaling
By John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren. Heyday Books, 2020. 296 pages.