Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild

Nature School is your destination for kid-friendly nature learning, where you can explore the natural world through engaging reading, beautiful illustrations, and more than 30 hands-on activities.

*2023 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children's Honor Book*
*2023 American Scientist Holiday Gift Guide Selection*

Kids need a break from screens now more than ever. Screen-free time spent exploring and learning about the outdoors makes for happier, healthier, smarter kids. And playing in nature gives kids confidence and independence, promoting creativity and teaching responsibility. With Nature School, all ages will enjoy connecting with nature and becoming inspired to discover the wild places around them.

Travel through five of earth's largest biomes, studying plants, animals, and their adaptations for survival--and learn hands-on through nature experiments explained in each lesson.From the arid desert to the salty seashore, investigate extraordinary ecosystems, discovering the role of predators and prey and learning about life cycles, climate, landscape, and more.

Chapters in this book explore plants, animals, and life cycles of:

• Temperate Forests
• Deserts
• Seashores
• Grasslands
• Wetlands

• Bark & Leaf Rubbings
• Desertscape Diorama
• Salt Dough Seashells
• Tornado in a Bottle
• Nature Journaling