Be sure to check out the new Hawaii Nature Journal Club website! I am moving all my learning resources over to this page. Hawaii Nature Journal Club
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Nature Journaling begins with the observation of nature — paying attention to the world around us. Then we document those observations in different ways in our journals with words, pictures, and numbers. So what does it mean to give attention to something, and what are the different ways to do that? In other words, it’s…
Sometimes a kid just doesn’t want to nature journal… right now. Maybe they just want to play tag, or lay down and stare up at the clouds, or smell the flowers. Maybe they want to climb a tree, or write a silly story in their journal about a cat and a spaceship. Letting them take…
As a nature journaling teacher, I am frequently asked, “How do I get my child/students interested in nature journaling?“ The first step is to do it yourself. It’s very hard to convince someone that nature journaling is important if you don’t do it! Author Oliver Burkeman wrote about this topic in his recent newsletter: “…in…
Be sure to check out the new Hawaii Nature Journal Club website! I am moving all my learning resources over to this page. Hawaii Nature Journal Club Going to the beach or lakeshore? Here is a way to focus your attention on all the different things you can see, notice, and record. Which one was…
This is the first in a series of posts about NOT drawing a bird, but instead, drawing lots of things ABOUT birds. (Notice how this is different from videos about how “not to” draw a bird, which implies there are “wrong” ways to draw a bird… when really, the only wrong way is to not…
These images are part of my art-based activism work – creating digital images speaking to urgent environmental concerns. They are intended for educational and personal use only. Aloha ʻāina means love of the land. But it also speaks to the responsibilities of a loving relationship, the need to tend and respect, and to ensure that…