Put on your owl eyes : open your senses & discover nature's secrets : mapping, tracking & journaling activities

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Children will see the natural world around them with brand new eyes, as they learn to follow its signs, hear its language, and understand its secrets. With this unique and compelling book written by expert environmental educator Devin Franklin, kids aged 8 to 13 will build their own relationship with nature through finding a “Sit Spot” — an outdoor space in the backyard, in a field or in the woods, in a vacant lot or a city park — where they can stop, observe, and become familiar with the flora and fauna that live there. From the Six Arts of Tracking (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) and making a habitat map to walking in smooth silence like a fox and learning the basics of bird language, exploration exercises lead young readers on a fascinating journey of discovery as they watch, listen, map, interpret, and write about the sounds, sights, scents, and patterns they encounter. With journaling prompts, map-making activities, and observational tracking practice throughout, Put On Your Owl Eyes is an interactive and thought-provoking guidebook.

Audience:

Age 8-13.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: your wild backyard -- Discovering a bigger backyard -- Exploration 1: sit spot -- Exploration 2: wandering -- Exploration 3: mapping -- Your backyard trees -- Exploration 4: expanding the senses -- Exploration 5: exploring field guides -- Exploration 6: mind's eye imagining -- Your backyard mammals -- Exploration 7: fox feet -- Exploration 8: questioning -- Exploration 9: tracking -- Your backyard birds -- Exploration 10: owl eyes -- Exploration 11: deer ears -- Exploration 12: bird language -- Your backyard community -- Exploration 13: journaling -- Exploration 14: story of the day -- Exploration 15: giving thanks -- Your backyard journey continues -- Closing story: the barred owl -- The backyard quiz, revisited.

Physical Description:

136 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject Term:

Nature study -- Juvenile literature.

Nature study -- Activity programs -- Juvenile literature.

Publisher:

Storey Publishing,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9781635860221

9781635862195

Publication Information:

North Adams, Massachusetts : Storey Publishing, [2019]

Call Number:

J 508 FRANKLI

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Children will see the natural world around them with brand new eyes, as they learn to follow its signs, hear its language, and understand its secrets. With this unique and compelling book written by expert environmental educator Devin Franklin, kids aged 8 to 13 will build their own relationship with nature through finding a "Sit Spot" -- an outdoor space in the backyard, in a field or in the woods, in a vacant lot or a city park -- where they can stop, observe, and become familiar with the flora and fauna that live there.

From the Six Arts of Tracking (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) and making a habitat map to walking in smooth silence like a fox and learning the basics of bird language, exploration exercises lead young readers on a fascinating journey of discovery as they watch, listen, map, interpret, and write about the sounds, sights, scents, and patterns they encounter. With prompts and write-in spaces for journaling, map-making activities, and observational tracking throughout, Put On Your Owl Eyes is an interactive and thought-provoking guidebook.

Author Notes

Devin Franklin is the author of Put On Your Owl Eyes . He holds a degree in environmental education and has studied survival, tracking, and awareness skills at Wilderness School in Maine and the Tracker School in New Jersey. He is director of programing at Flying Deer Nature Center in Chatham, New York, which he joined with his wife in 1998.