Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
    Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
    Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
    Ebook311 pages2 hours

    Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages

    By Joseph Cornell and Richard Louv

    3/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Sharing Nature by author Joseph Bharat Cornell

    A nature education classic has been rewritten! 

    Joseph Cornell has combined Sharing Nature with Children (which has sold more than half a million copies and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education) with Sharing Nature with Children II (a treasury of some of Joseph's best-loved nature games for children and adults) in one complete volume: Sharing Nature.

    Upon its release, Sharing Nature quickly received prestigious awards:

    • Winner, Silver Nautilus Award in the Animals & Nature category
    • Winner, Grand Prize: Indie Book Awards in the Non-Fiction category
    • Winner, Indie Book Award in the Science/Nature/Environment category
    • Winner, Indie Book Award in the Parenting/Family category
    • Winner, Silver Evergreen Medal in the Nature Conservation category
    • Winner, Green Book Festival Award in the How-To category
    • Shortlisted, 2016 Green Earth Book Award in the Young Adult Nonfiction category
    • Finalist, 2016 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Nature category

    Not just a book, this is a powerful approach to nature education. Fans of the original work will be excited by this new version of their beloved nature handbook, which incorporates the author's latest insights. (Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience to significantly revise and expand this book.)

    New readers—including outdoor enthusiasts of all types and nature-based schools and instructors—will be enthralled by this phenomenal teaching tool. Essential, easy to use, Sharing Nature is nature awareness made simple. It makes experiencing nature fun. An extraordinary resource for anyone who would like to get in touch with the land, trees, and mountains. This book is a treasure trove of games and activities that tap into our natural curiosity, imagination, and wonder. Give a friend or a child an experience of Nature and wildlife that he will remember the rest of his life.

    Sharing Nature takes readers beyond their intellects and into their hearts, where true understanding and appreciation take place. The wildly popular nature activities in this book arouse a sense of mystery, and engender quiet attention, observation, and the possibility of revelation. New nature games—and old favorites—and Cornell's typically insightful commentary makes this new and quintessential version of this special classic even more valuable to nature enthusiasts worldwide.

    In page after page of innovative activities, Cornell's unique blend of knowledge and warmth creates a contagious atmosphere for learning. Enjoy the color interior with 250 photos offering comprehensive easy-to-follow instructions.

    The Sharing Nature movement has expanded to countries all over the globe. Cornell and his work have been recommended by the Boy Scouts of America, the American Camping Association, the National Audubon Society, Japan's national school system, and many others. Cornell also introduces his remarkable technique of Flow Learning, showing how to match nature activities to the interest and energy levels of participants and children, and to organize them in a way that works, placing them in thematic sequence to ensure a genuinely uplifting experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrystal Clarity Publishers
    Release dateJun 15, 2015
    ISBN9781565895546
    Sharing Nature®: Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages
    Author

    Joseph Cornell

    Joseph Bharat Cornell is an internationally renowned author and founder of Sharing Nature Worldwide, one of the planet’s most widely respected nature awareness programs. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, “sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education” and has been published in twenty languages and sold half a million copies. He is the honorary president of Sharing Nature Association of Japan, which has 10,000 members and 35,000 trained leaders.  He the author of the Sharing Nature Book Series, used by millions of parents, educators, naturalists, and youth and religious leaders all over the world. Cornell’s books, Listening to Nature and The Sky and Earth Touched Me, have inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship with nature. Two recent books of his: The Sky and Earth Touched Me and Sharing Nature were awarded Indie Book Grand Prize Winners for Non-Fiction.  The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service selected Cornell’s Sharing Nature with Children as one of the fifteen most influential books published since 1890 for connecting children and families to nature. His highly effective outdoor learning strategy, Flow Learning™, was featured by the U.S. National Park Service as one of five recommended learning theories, along with the works of Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.  Cornell has received many international awards for his Sharing Nature books and work. He received the prestigious Countess Sonja-Bernadotte Prize in Germany for his vast influence on environmental education in Central Europe. In 2011 Cornell was selected as one of the world’s “100 most influential opinion leaders committed to the Environment” by the French organization, Les Anges Gardiens de la Planète. Known for his warmth and joyful enthusiasm, Cornell “has a genius for finding the essence of a subject, explaining it in clear and compelling ways, and then giving the reader creative exercises to gain an actual experience.” 

    Read more from Joseph Cornell

    Related to Sharing Nature®

    Related ebooks

    Teaching Methods & Materials For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Dose Of Nature

      Oct 28, 2020

      A Dose Of Nature
      7 min read

    • Article

      Finding Hope In Nature

      Jul 27, 2023

      Finding Hope In Nature
      6 min read

    • Article

      Jane Goodall

      Apr 1, 2024

      Jane Goodall
      7 min read

    • Article

      Deep Ecology

      Aug 20, 2014

      Deep Ecology
      3 min read

    • Article

      Nurturing the Sense

      Dec 16, 2020

      Rachel Carson wrote in 1965: “A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and ev

      4 min read

    • Article

      Lessons From The Past

      Dec 21, 2023

      Lessons From The Past
      3 min read

    • Article

      Latest Reads

      Aug 21, 2022

      How to grow, learn and radically engage with the natural world Eduardo Navarro et al (Profile Books, $27.99) Cast aside your device and immerse yourself in the leaves of this volume of thought-provoking essays. The book gathers together writings from

      1 min read

    • Article

      There Is Joy In These Pages

      Feb 22, 2021

      There Is Joy In These Pages
      9 min read

    • Article

      This Is No Way to Be Human

      Jan 15, 2022

      This Is No Way to Be Human
      10 min read

    • Article

      WILD Wisdom

      Feb 13, 2020

      WILD Wisdom
      7 min read

    • Article

      Back To The Woods

      Dec 23, 2021

      Back To The Woods
      3 min read

    • Article

      Deep Roots

      Aug 1, 2022

      Deep Roots
      2 min read

    • Article

      We’re Forgetting What ‘Nature’ Really Means

      Nov 24, 2017

      Places that make you feel “in nature,” such as parks, beaches, and campgrounds, are likely different than those that your parents or grandparents would have cited. “If we just try to teach people the importance of nature, that’s not going to work. Th

      2 min read

    • Article

      Where The Wild Books Are

      May 15, 2018

      Liam Heneghan aims to show how children’s literature can instill a lifelong love of nature.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Hurricane Mind

      Mar 22, 2022

      Hurricane Mind
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Sharing Nature®

    3/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Sharing Nature® - Joseph Cornell

      © George Beinhorn

      Chapter One

      The Story Behind

      THE BOOK

      In 1971, just as I had begun my university major in nature awareness, I led my first nature walk with twenty-two second graders from a small school in the California foothills. I had recently been experiencing nature’s sublime beauty and magnificence in the Sierra wilderness—and I wanted the children to feel for themselves what had moved me so deeply—a lofty goal, considering my total lack of teaching experience.

      My first mistake was heading down an old forest road without a clear plan for how to focus the children’s lively energy. Excited to be outside and oblivious to the natural surroundings, the children used the road as a racetrack. As they ran down the road, I hurried after them. Eventually, we stopped for lunch, and then the students ran exuberantly back to their classroom.

      I had wanted the children to truly feel and appreciate the trees and animals that lived around them. While I knew I hadn’t achieved my goals for the walk, I felt in my heart that there was a way of connecting people deeply with nature. I just hadn’t yet found it.

      © George Beinhorn

      Most outdoor learning at the time used the walk—stop—talk model: the leader stops at a subject of interest, talks to the group about it, then leads them to the next station. The group simply listens passively. I remember going on such a forest walk in Ohio. At a certain point, I became so bored that I wondered if I was sincere in my desire to become a naturalist. Then I realized that the whole day I’d come no closer to a tree than ten yards.

      © Argentina National Parks National Library

      Immediately after its publication, Sharing Nature with Children was received enthusiastically in virtually every corner of the earth. Here, park rangers in Southern Argentina experience the Owls and Crows game during a workshop. A team of rangers spent their free evenings translating the book into Spanish for their non-English speaking colleagues.

      In the early 1970s the idea of experiential nature activities was just starting to take off. Here I found exactly what I was seeking—nature activities helped people become fully engaged with nature, and did so in a way that exhilarated both mind and heart.

      Once I discovered how nature activities could make learning focused, dynamic, and joyful, I immediately began to create my own activities, and soon found myself having great success sharing them with others. It was heartwarming to see how children and adults playing these games became vibrantly alive, and resonated deeply with nature and with the best part of themselves.

      In 1979, I published these activities in Sharing Nature with Children, which pioneered and popularized internationally the use of nature activities. Parents and educators across the globe were wildly enthusiastic about these games, because, as National Audubon’s Vice President of Education, Duryea Morton, wrote, by using these activities children actually experience what it is like to be a part of the natural world.

      Lucy Gertz, now a manager with the Massachusetts Audubon Society, wrote in 2002 about the tremendous impact Sharing Nature with Children had on the field of nature education in the early 1980s:

      When a copy of Sharing Nature with Children landed in our midst, the teacher/naturalists were like vultures competing for the kill. Most of us were new to environmental education. We had ecology textbooks and field guides, but little else besides what our hearts were guiding us to do. But here in this book, we found everything—philosophy, activities, and ways to lead children to meaningful environmental education experiences. This small book was hugely significant to us—it was our guide and our

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1