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Great Binoculars for Beginners, Kids, & Teachers

March 13, 2019 by Elsa Leave a Comment

This is a review of the  Bushnell Falcon 133410 Binoculars they have 7x magnification and 35 mm lens and run for about $27 (as of 3/13/19) on Amazon. I also own a pair of Clear Point Sport Optics that … Read more

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How to Make an Easy & Affordable Bird Feeder

January 28, 2019 by Elsa Leave a Comment

Supplies: cardboard roll from a toilet paper roll, lard, bird seed, popsicle sticks, scissors (& hole punch), string, permanent marker, and plastic tupperware or a baggie. All these supplies costed me about 12$ and as long as your students don’t … Read more

Filed Under: Affordable Activities Tagged With: affordable bird feeder, Affordable outdoor activities, bird activities, bird feeder engineering, birding, Cross-curricular learning, easy bird feeder, easy outdoor activities, home school activities, home school science, outdoor activities, teaching about birds, teaching outdoors

Outdoor Classroom Management

January 20, 2019 by Elsa Leave a Comment

Like for most classroom management preventing the behavior you don’t want to see and encouraging the behavior you do want goes a lot farther than dealing with problems as they arise. This is better known as preventative classroom management, and … Read more

Filed Under: parent resources, Teacher Resources, Teaching Outdoors Tagged With: attention grabbers, classroom management, discipline, discipline outdoors, gathering students, learning outdoors, outdoor class, outdoor classroom, outdoor education, outdoor teaching, planning an outdoor class, teaching children, teaching outdoors, three strikes method

How to Plan an Outdoor Class!

October 11, 2018 by Elsa Leave a Comment

Planning an outdoor class can be summed up into 5 main topics:

#1 Location, Day, & Amount of time

#2 Safety

#3 Standards or Why are you going outside?

#4 Activities: Materials needed & back up

#5 Behavior Plan

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Filed Under: Naturalist Resources, Nature Centers, parent resources, Teacher Resources, Teaching Outdoors Tagged With: classroom management, home school, learning outdoors, outdoor class, outdoor classroom, outdoor education, outdoor teaching, teacher resources, teaching outdoors

Freeman Tilden’s Principles for Teachers

April 12, 2018 by Elsa Leave a Comment

You may be looking at this article just to find out who this guy Freeman Tilden is and what he has to do with teachers. That is okay in the world outside of environmental education and the U.S. National Parks … Read more

Filed Under: Naturalist Resources, Nature Centers, Teacher Resources, Teaching Outdoors Tagged With: education, elementary education, Enos Mills, environmental education, environmental educators, Freeman Tilden, interdisciplinary, interpretation, learning outdoors, national parks, naturalists, nature center, naturlist, outdoor classroom, outdoor education, outdoor teaching, teachers, teaching children, teaching outdoors

Free Lesson Plans & Webinars on the National Wildlife Federation’s Website

February 1, 2018 by Elsa Leave a Comment

For this week’s blog I am bringing to you all the FREE (yes you read correctly) free lesson plans and webinars on the National Wildlife Federation’s website and also breaking them down for you to show you what an awesome … Read more

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