Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
Posted in Animals, Literature, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on January 2, 2012
A wild, adventurous “living book” with plenty of illustrations! Most of the stories deal with how things work or curiosities of nature but some of them are pure fiction. From the preface: Come along, boys and girls! We are off on our rambles. But please do not ask me where we are going. It would Read More »
How Plants Travel Notebooking Pack
Posted in Free Use, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Upper Elementary on November 14, 2011
As a companion resource to the wonderful living book Little Wanderers, I have created a notebooking pack that includes individual pages for each of the main plants in the book. This pack is enormous, a whopping 57 pages! Study the way that seeds travel and have fun recording your progress. Along with the notebooking pages Read More »
The First Book of Trees
Posted in High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival, Upper Elementary on October 19, 2011
Can you identify the trees in your neighborhood? You can with the help of this ebook! The First Book of Trees is chock-full of information about leaves, pods, and other ways to figure out what kinds of trees are around the town. Girls and boys alike can use this book in their nature studies, for Read More »
Nature Stories for Young Readers
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on October 13, 2011
A great example of how public domain texts can be used for commercial projects is the series of nature readers Christian Liberty Press offers. Each of these books (except volume 4) is a reprint of an older book that has fallen into the public domain. The volumes have been edited and beautifully reprinted. I highly Read More »
Trees Worth Knowing
Posted in High School, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival, Upper Elementary on October 13, 2011
This book was just recently cataloged by gutenberg.org and I couldn’t wait to share it! It is perfect for older elementary kids up to high school age. Julia E. Rogers knows trees. She provides in this book a way to both discover new trees and become familiar with the ones you think you know. An Read More »
