Keep Trees Nature Study Simple with these resources:
Nature Study Hacking| Trees
Provides 24 lessons for an introduction to TREES. Based on the Handbook of Nature Study, this guide simplifies the introduction of the parts of a tree, leaf shapes, tree shapes, and more. (This page contains affiliate links.)
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ESSENTIALS:
If you were only going to buy ONE book in addition to Handbook of Nature Study to go with Nature Study Hacking| Trees I recommend this one:
The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-Ups by Gina Ingoglia
Trees Supply List:
Supply List:
- Sketchbook or Dot grid notebook (8.5/11 size preferred for younger children)
- A pencil and an eraser
- Colored pencils (preferred for younger children)
- Preprinted Phenology wheel sliced into 12 pie pieces for each month of the year (see Appendix)
- Scissors
- Tape or glue (for phenology wheel)
- Protractor (optional if making Phenology wheel instead of printing it off)
- A deciduous tree (a tree that sheds its leaves annually) in your yard/neighborhood
- Additional trees for further study
Further Study:
If you want more great resources, these are the ones we LOVED:
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons
Trees and Nonflowering Plants (Reader's Digest North American Wildlife)
Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees Series
Nature Drawing help for early elementary:
How to Draw Almost Everything by Chika Miyata