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Author | : Elin Kelsey |
Publisher | : Wayland |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : 9781526360588 |
"Wild Ideas" looks deep into the forests, skies and oceans to explore how animals solve problems. Whether it's weaving a safe place to rest and reflect, blowing a fine net of bubbles to trap fish, or leaping boldly into a new situation, the animals featured (including the orangutan, humpback whale and gibbon) can teach us a lot about creative problem solving tools and strategies. This book uses lyrical text grounded in current science alongside wonderfully detailed art to present problems as doorways to creative thinking. "Wild Ideas" encourages an inquiry-based approach to learning, inviting readers to indulge their sense of wonder and curiosity by observing the natural world, engaging with big ideas and asking questions
Author | : Kristy Hamilton |
Publisher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1771648201 |
A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Delightful."—The Guardian "Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review When astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists wanted to drastically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct their skeletons in the sea. This is biomimicry in action: taking inspiration from nature to tackle human challenges. In Nature’s Wild Ideas, Kristy Hamilton goes behind the scenes of some of our most unexpected innovations. She traverses frozen waterfalls, treks through cloudy forests, discovers nests in the Mojave desert, scours intertidal zones and takes us to the deepest oceans and near volcanoes to introduce us to the animals and plants that have inspired everything from cargo routing systems to non-toxic glues, and the men and women who followed that first spark of “I wonder” all the way to its conclusion, sometimes against all odds. While the joy of scientific discovery is front and center, Nature’s Wild Ideas is also a love letter to nature—complete with a deep message of conservation: If we are to continue learning from the creatures around us, we must protect their untamed homelands.
Author | : Jennifer Ward |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2008-05-13 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1590305353 |
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder. Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature. "Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv
Author | : David Rothenberg |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780816626151 |
Wild Ideas is a collection of essays that brings a fresh and refreshing perspective to the wilderness paradoxically at the center of our civilization.
Author | : Elin Kelsey |
Publisher | : Wayland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : 9780750296571 |
People are nature. From the water we drink to the trees we climb, we are connected to the natural world in big and surprising ways. With simple, poetic text, and exquisite artwork, You Are Stardust introduces kids to these connections - sparking their imaginations and starting conversations. Combining the ideas of environmental author and educator Elin Kelsey with inventive, three-dimensional dioramas by artist Soyeon Kim, this remarkable picture book reveals ties that are often sensed, yet seldom explained. Children will learn that the salt in their body is the same as the salt in the ocean, that they learned to speak in the same way that baby birds do - by copying their parents, and that elephants, bats and whales make friends, just like they do. In a world dominated by technology, never have these connections between people and nature been more worth exploring.
Author | : Brooke Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780648661801 |
More green time. Less screen time. This nature play activity book is perfect for kids aged 2-10 years, or anyone wanting more nature and play in their lives.
Author | : David Rothenberg |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : 9781452902333 |
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Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2005-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781404813465 |
Sophie and Luke go to Camp Invention where they meet Professor Beezley, a scientist and inventor who shows them how nature is the ultimate inventor and problem solver.
Author | : Lisa Thompson |
Publisher | : Blake Education |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Creative thinking |
ISBN | : 9781865099156 |
Describes the problem solving, inventiveness and higher order thinking skills that we would like to see more of in our students. Also describes the ways children can see how they can be inventive and creative.
Author | : Liberty Hyde Bailey |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2024-01-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1501772627 |
In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroduces The Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of related writings, and introductory essays relate Bailey's vision to current work in education and the intersection of climate change and culture. In this period of planetary turmoil, Bailey's ambition to cultivate wonder (in adults as well as children) and lead readers back into the natural world is more important than ever.