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.

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

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 TEMPERATE FORESTS: The Temperate Forest Ecosystem, Climate and Weather, Anatomy of a Deciduous Tree, Coniferous vs. Deciduous, Plants, Animals, Predators, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians, Invertebrates, Activities
2 DESERTS: The Desert Ecosystem, Climate and Weather, Landforms, Cactus Habitat, Plants, Animals, Predators, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians, Invertebrates, Activities
3 SEASHORE: The Seashore Ecosystem, Coastal Landforms, The Ocean, The Tide, Seashells, Animals, Coastal Fish, Predatory Fish, Marine Mammals, Birds, Plants, Activities
4 GRASSLANDS: The Grassland Ecosystem, Climate and Weather, Grass, Plants, Animals, Predators, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians, Invertebrates, Activities
5 WETLANDS: The Wetland Ecosystem, Climate and Weather, Wetland Water, Plants, Animals, Predators, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians, Invertebrates, Activities
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Index

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