Nature-Based Learning instructional resources recommended by Da Vinci Connect Families
Online Resources:
- Local hikes. This was a hiking project from a Da Vinci student: http://bit.ly/kidhikesinLA
- Learn math outside: https://www.wildmathcurriculum.com and their FB group: https://m.facebook.com/wildmathcurriculum/
- John Muir Laws, curriculum, and journaling:
- Facebook group for those wildschooling/homeschooling: https://m.facebook.com/groups/wildschooling/?view=group
- Find fairy doors hidden in the natural world: www.thefairytrails.weebly.com
- Nature classes: https://everwildla.com
- Junior Field Guides: https://www.growxtogether.com/
- Nature Art: https://www.marghanita.com/
- Find hiking trails: https://www.alltrails.com
Books:
- Exploring nature with children curriculum: https://raisinglittleshoots.com/buy-exploring-nature-with-children/
- Early years curriculum: https://blossomandroot.com/curriculum/
- Southern California Food Plants by Charles W. Kane
- Cooking the Native Way by the Chia Cafe Collective
- Usborne book – Never Get Bored Outdoors
- Usborne book – Outdoor Book
- Usborne Superskills book – Improve Your Survival Skills
- The Green World Ethnobotany by Kim Young
- Ethnobotany Project: Contemporary Uses of Native Plants | Southern California and Northern Baja California by Rose Ramirez;Deborah Smaltany Project
- The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- Sing a Song of Seasons-A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year by Nosy Crow
- Wild Things by Lonely Planet Kids
- Field Guides – information on local flora and fauna
- Succulent Propagation, project slides from a Da Vinci student: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PDXuFwCNfVaveSuyYXIfO2YFWj_-S6JoBnujrbQ-NC4/edit#slide=id.g83ec4757ed_2_23