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Nature Journaling Tip #12: Use Nature Journals to Inspire Writing
The following exercise will give you practice in using the field journal to enhance the writing process. The exercise employs clustering, a non-linear brain-storming process that allows greater access to your creativity during the prewriting stage, and eases the entire writing process.
Nature Journaling Tip #11: Make Sound Maps
Focus your attention on what you're hearing by making a sound map in your nature journal:
1. Draw a circle.
2. Place an X in the center to indicate your position, then start to listen carefully.
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Nature Journaling Tip #10: Make Nature Journaling Interdisciplinary
Try to link your use of nature journals to at least two different subject areas in order to make good use of instructional time in the schoolyard and classroom.
Nature Journaling Tip #9: More Classroom Nature Center Ideas
Put bulbs for forcing such as narcissus, as well as plant seedlings of various kinds on display.
A thermometer that records maximums and minimums both indoors and outdoors, makes a good start for a classroom weather station.
Nature Journaling Tip #8: Creating a Classroom Nature Center
Nature journals support a classroom environment that promotes science inquiry and literacy. Encourage your students to bring objects from outdoors such as leaves, cones, seedpods, mussel shells, and fossils.
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