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Discovery Packs: Nature Discovery/Backyard Exploration

Books

• 15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids

(Rebecca Cohen)

• Backyard Pets: Activities for Exploring Wildlife Close to Home (Carol A. Amato)

• Dancers in the Garden (Joanne Ryder)

• Dirt: The Scoop on Soil (Natalie M. Rosinsky)

• The Empty Lot (Dale H. Fife)

• Explore Winter! 25 Great Ways to Learn About Winter (Maxine Anderson)

• A Handful of Dirt (Raymond Bial)

• How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum (Keri Smith)I Took a Walk (Henry Cole)

• In the Tall Tall Grass (Denise Flemming)

• Jennifer Ward

o I Love Dirt: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature

o It’s a Jungle Out There: 52 Nature Adventures for City Kids

o Let’s Go Outside!: Outdoor Activities and Projects to Get Your Kids Closer to Nature

• Keeping a Nature Journal: Discovering a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You (Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth)

• Kid’s Ecojournals – All Seasons (Toni Albert)

• Kid’s Garden: 40 Fun Indoor and Outdoor Activities and Games (Wendy Cohen)

• The Listening Walk (Paul Showers)

• The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)

• Nature Circles Card Deck ()

• Nature’s Art Box: 65 Cool Projects for Crafty Kids (Laura C. Martin)

• Nature’s Playground: Activities, Crafts, and Games to Encourage Children to Get Outdoors (Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield)

• Recycle: A Handbook for Kids (Gail Gibbons)

• Sharing Nature with Children (Joseph Cornell)

• Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon: Nature Activities for All Ages (Edward Duensing)

• The Wump World (Bill Peet)

• You Can be a Nature Detective (Peggy Kochanoff)

Guides

• Birds at Your Feeder (Dana Gardner and Nancy Overcott)

• Nature Circles Card Deck ()

• One Small Square: Backyard

• Peterson Guides: varied

• Pocket Naturalist Guides: varied

Materials

• Insect nets

• Aquatic nets

• Bug boxes and magnifying jars

• Binoculars or monoculars

• Plant press

• Compass

• Ruler or tape measurer

• Flashlight

• Egg carton color collector

• Puppets: insects, birds, etc.

• Stamp or rubbing plate kits

• Clipboard

• Crayons or colored pencils

• Nature journals or pages

• Collecting bags

Activites/Handouts

From Growing Up Wild curriculum

• First Impressions

• Looking at Leaves

• What’s Wild

• Wildlife is Everywhere

• Hiding in Plain Sight

• See Need

• Show Me the Energy!

• Wildlife Water Safari

• Field Study Fun

• Less is More

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