Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, OUTDOOR SCHOOL: ANIMAL WATCHING is an indispensable tool for young explorers and animal lovers. Make every day an adventure with the included: - Immersive activities to get you exploring - Write-in sections to journal about experiences - Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to animals includes: - Animal tracking - Identifying birds by silhouette, size, and color - Reading animal range maps - Bird nest spotting - Essential animal-watching gear - Identifying mammals - Bird calls and animal sounds - Finding amphibians, reptiles, and fish - Spotting scat - Recognizing eyeshine - Recording animal behavior And so much more!

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, OUTDOOR SCHOOL: HIKING AND CAMPING is an indispensable tool for young explorers and nature lovers. Make every day an adventure with the included: - Immersive activities to get you exploring - Write-in sections to journal about experiences - Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to hiking and camping includes: - Planning your next adventure - Essential outdoor gear - First aid & survival - Navigation - How to handle extreme weather - Crossing dangerous terrain - Setting up camp - Building a fire in rain or shine - Games for the trail - Finding and filtering water - Animal tracks, calls, and sounds - Bird watching - Plant spotting - Rock hunting - What to do if you’re lost And so much more!

Binoculars, camera, action! This handy guidebook provides basic tips and tricks for wildlife spotting and nature photography, including recognizing animal signs, essential gear, and wildlife dos and don'ts. With bold photos and infographics, step-by-step projects, and expert instructions, OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GUIDES will have first-time campers and enthusiasts alike opting outside.

Welcome to OUTDOOR SCHOOL: SPOT & STICKER ANIMALS. Finally—a sticker book for the curious and the adventurous. The Outdoor School Sticker series delivers the natural wonders of the in gorgeous, scientifically-accurate stickers. Peel and place each sticker on the pull-out poster once you’ve seen each animal—or simply decorate your surroundings to make an animal-spotter’s paradise. Peel and stick hundreds of extravagant illustrations to decorate greeting cards, letters, packages, classroom notebooks, scrapbooks, cell phone cases—anything your heart desires! For the curious-minded, each animal is identified by name. Full of unique, hand painted portraits of animals, these stickers make the perfect gift for animal-lovers, crafters, scrapbookers, and any sticker lover.

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, OUTDOOR SCHOOL: ROCK, FOSSIL, AND SHELL HUNTING is an indispensable tool for young explorers and rock collectors. Make every day an adventure with the included: - Immersive activities to get you exploring - Write-in sections to journal about experiences - Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers No experience is required—only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to rocks, fossils & shells includes: - Digging, chiseling, hammering, and wading for rocks and minerals - Identifying rocks & minerals by location, texture, color, shape, and size - Determining between rocks, geodes, and space rocks - Finding fossils and setting up a dig site - Searching and snorkeling for shells - Storing and displaying your collection And so much more!

Structured around the 4 seasons, this guide to outdoor learning and activities is packed with kids games, crafts, and skills to encourage your young ones to get outdoors—come rain, shine, or snow. The Forest School ethos of nature-based play and learning encourages children to develop confidence, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence—and it’s exactly what’s needed in an era when childhood problems such as obesity and anxiety are on the rise. Building on the success of the bestselling Play the Forest School Way, here is a brilliant selection of brand-new games, crafts, and activities to get kids developing new skills and exploring the natural world all year round. Structured around the four seasons of the year, each chapter is full of step-by-step games and activities that harmonize with the weather and seasonal nature patterns, including nods to seasonal festivals such as Easter and Christmas. Activities include: Spring: Nettle Soup; Wood-cookie-Man; Earth Day Birthday Cake; Dandelion and Lime Tea Summer: Bark Masks; Blackberry Ink and Feather Quill Pens; Nature Watch; Animal Tag Autumn: Evergreen Paintbrush; Baked Apples; Den Building; Leaf Stitching Winter: Elf Carving; Compass Treasure Hunt; Charcoal Pencils; Animal Track Casts At Forest School, children return to the same location again and again, building a lasting connection with a specific part of the natural world. Each of the four seasonal chapters in A Year of Forest School includes a description of an extended session (combining active and quieter activities, plus an idea for foraging/cooking), capturing this key part of Forest School play and providing inspiration for parties, themed learning days, and outdoor adventures.

Welcome to OUTDOOR SCHOOL: SPOT & STICKER BIRDS. Finally—a sticker book for the curious and the adventurous. The Outdoor School Sticker series delivers the natural wonders of the world in gorgeous, scientifically-accurate stickers. Peel and place each sticker on the pull-out poster once you’ve seen each bird—or simply decorate your surroundings to make a bird-spotter’s paradise. Peel and stick hundreds of extravagant illustrations to decorate greeting cards, letters, packages, classroom notebooks, scrapbooks, cell phone cases—anything your heart desires! For the curious-minded, each bird is identified by name. Full of unique, hand painted portraits of birds and bird life, these beautiful stickers make the perfect gift for bird-lovers, crafters, scrapbookers, and sticker lovers.

Forest: A See to Learn Book is the first book in a series of non-fiction picture books for very young children, using lyrical phrasing to encourage a sensitive perception of the natural world and a caring connection with it. Through gentle questions, the text asks young readers to consider what they see and experience in the forest through the seasons — animal tracks, tiny creatures in the soil, birds soaring in the sky above, towering trees, shade and dappled sunlight — drawing local connections alongside those of a global sensibility. Stunningly beautiful illustrations show a child and grownup exploring the forest, appreciating its beauty, learning its secrets and enjoying moments of wonder, all first steps toward developing a lifelong awareness of our interconnectedness to the Earth and our impact on the environment. Key Text Features author’s note Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox. In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.

Sometimes nature can be found in your backyard. Follow little Harrison who discovers that he doesn't have to travel far to gain an appreciation for nature right outside his back door.