Content:

Foreword to Parents and Teachers

How to Use This Book

Expanding The Outdoor Experience

Descriptive Language

Getting Kids to Talk – A List of Ideas

Getting the Talk Written Down

Recording Data

Activity Charts

            Real Graphs
            Picture Graphs
            Bar Graphs

Tally Cards

Outdoor Education Isn’t Always in the Woods

How to Organize For an Outdoor Experience

Pretrip Planning

The Trip

Fowllow Up

A Check List of Field Trip Priorities

Suggested School Forms

You’re Going To Need Help

Books for Parents and Teachers

cience and nature Magazines

Books for Children

Scrounging Places and Things to Look For

Field Trip Ideas, Guest Speakers and General Information

Things to Use

Places to Write

Loving Your Environment – Aesthetic & Affective Experiences

3 & Up: Spyglass Treasure Hunt: Close Up and Far Away

3 & Up: Hugging a Tree

3 & Up: A Wood Chip Garden

4 & Up: Where Do Things Go At Night

5 & Up: Talking About Monsters

5 & Up: What Makes a Perfect Day?

4 & Up: A Piece of Our World

5 & Up: Everything is Connected

4 & Up: How Many ways to Grandma’s House?

Turning On Your Senses-Observation Experiences

3 & Up: Touch Me, Feel Me, Know Me, or Wake up Your Fingers

4 & Up: Open House

4 & Up: 1, 2, 3 Hush

2 & Up: Make a Rainbow

3 & Up: Let Your Nose Do the Walking

5 & Up: The Texture Collector

3 & Up: Sounds That Match

5 & Up: Follow That Critter

5 & Up: Leaves Don’t All Fall the Same Way

5 & Up: Curves and Straights-The Shapes Nature Makes

5 & Up: Take a Bird to Lunch

Backyard Data Collecting-Counting, Classifying and Recording Experiences

5 & Up: Hide and Seek for Critters and Kids

3 & Up: Grow a Sock

3 & Up: Feed the Critters

3 & Up: Keep It in Your Mind as You Go and Find

5 & Up: Creepy Crawler Race Track

5 & Up: Scavenger Hunt Grab Bag Lotto

4 & Up: What About Weeds

4 & Up: When Is a Gnat Not a Gnat? When It’s a Fruit Fly

5 & Up: I Can Make What You Make

3 & Up: The Sun won’t Shine Through You

4 & Up: Toss and Find

5 & Up: Count What You Can and Do It Again

Want To Know How Much?-Measurement Experiences
2 & Up: The Big Squirt
3 & Up: Measure the Wind
4 & Up: How Do You Measure Things?
4 & Up: Head to Toe All in a Row
3 & Up: The Long and Short of It
3 & Up: Snowjob
3 & Up: Long, Short, Tall, Small-Compare Them All
3 & Up: Tin Can Ice Cream
4 & Up: How Does Your Dandelion Grow?
5 & Up: It Takes a Whole Bunch
5 & Up: Measure Shadows
4 & Up: Fill That Space-An Area Game
4 & Up: Nuts for You and Rocks, Too
3 & Up: How Deep Is Your Snowdrift?

Watching Time and Seasons-Change and Time Experiences
3 & Up: Bury the Sock
4 & Up: The Seasons Go Round and Round
4 & Up: Quiet Time
3 & Up: Spring Is the Time for Baby Birds
4 & Up: What Color Is Spring?
5 & Up: Old and New