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A Sense of Place: Teaching Children About the Environment with Picture Books

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This book opens your eyes to the wonders of the world through picture books. It gives easy to deliver effective lessons to go along with them. If you are an elementary educator or an outdoor educator it should be in your library and worn with use.

Author Kriesberg realizes children only learn so much through abstract teaching. Far more information is retained if it can be made real, i.e. through nature nearby. Elementary and middle school aged children more easily grasp concepts if they experience them and Kriesberg offers hundreds of ways to engage students. It's broken up into three sections:
I.Where do we live and who lives with us?
2.How does it work?
3.How do we protect it?
The book is valuable even if you don't use the children's books suggested to go along with the ideas presented in each section. That being said, those books I did check out of the local library did fit in with the lesson plans.

I recommend "A Sense of Place" for any teacher looking to incorporate more nature into their students lives and do it in a way that teaches perspective.

A great reference when teaching children about a subject they must value into the 21st century.