Description
Nature Worth Observing
“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.” -Charlotte Mason
Based off of Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Education and her first volume: Home Education.
Charlotte provided various direction on the importance of nature study, how, and what specifically to study. Nature Worth Observing takes all of which is suggested and puts it into a clear cut lesson plan. Nature Worth Observing correlates each lesson with nature observational prompts from Anna Comstocks hand book of nature study.
Each nature study can be conducted by use of the out of door. However, if you are looking to simplify, order from the supply list below.
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Links to Supplies:
Bird Watching Binoculars
Or
Window Bird Feeder 
Ant Farm 
Tadpole to Frog Growing Kit with 2 Live Tadpoles Sent with Kit
Insect Lore Giant Butterfly Kit: Voucher For 5 Caterpillars
Star Map
Winsor Newton Pocket Watercolor Box
OR
Watercolor Pencils 48 Dry Coloring Pencils
Includes:
- Introduction to nature study
- Picture painting and sight-seeing exercises for each season.
- Field Crop exercise
- Follows 6 trees through each season
- The Night Sky (based off of a parent’s review article written by Charlotte)
- Calendar of Firsts lesson
- Supply List
- Living Book List
- Nature Themed Activities
- Poetry Packet
- 43 different Nature Study
- 84 page Nature Journal
213 pages in total
Non Returnable PDF download
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Stefanie (verified owner) –
Great curriculum! Love the intro with excerpts and guidance provided on Charlotte Mason nature study methods. Love all that is included: living book lists, poetry, natural journal. The ideas and information are great and I know it will be very useful for our studies! Some suggestions for improvement: the font is quite large and I would recommend making it smaller, with the exception of the nature journal that is included at the back. It would be more economical and require less paper when printing. Also, insert blank pages where it would be helpful for double-sided printing (i.e. just before the nature journal).