A book review of Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children’s Love for Everything Wild by Lauren Giordano, Stephanie Hathaway and Laura Stroup.
Stars: ****
Quarto Publishing (2023)
Children’s Nonfiction>Nature
144 pages
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links.
Summary: 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. Featuring activities and experiments that include: Bark & Leaf Rubbings, Desertscape Diorama, Salt Dough Seashells, Tornado in a Bottle, Nature Journaling. The whole family will enjoy learning through Nature School!
Nature School
This book is an introduction to the different biomes such as wetlands, temperate, deserts, seashore and grasslands.
For every biome many things are shown and explained such as what the ecosystem is like, climate and weather, plants, animals, and more. Each biome also ends with some fun activities you and your child can do to really ingrain the learning and make it fun at the same time.
The activities often require you to collect some simple supplies but you may not have all of them in your house already so I recommend planning ahead.
The book has colourful illustrations to show what the biome and it’s inhabitants look like. Here are some things you’ll learn about: sand dunes, coastal landforms, desert plants, temperate invertebrates, life cycle of an oak tree, wetland water, marine mammals, grassland predators and more.
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