Only One
While working with Hawaii Audubon Society, I helped teach over one thousand Hawai’i students about our native birds and how to draw them. However, I sometimes left classrooms wondering how much was actually learned, and what will be remembered a week, month, or year from now. I’ve had students fall asleep during a presentation, spend…
Growth Mindset
The biggest impediment to people starting (or continuing) to nature journal is a perceived lack of ability. This is especially evident to new learners when their teacher or the examples they’re given are way beyond their current capacity. One way to overcome that is for you as the teacher/parent/adult in their lives to demonstrate learning…
Do It Yourself
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…
Types of Attention
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…