Connecting with nature
Subtitle: a naturalist's perspective
By: by Robert Stebbins
Publisher: NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Arlington, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936959112; 9781936959891
Subjects: Ecology; Activity programs; Nature; Environmental education; Nature study; Philosophy; Effect of human beings on; Study and teaching; Outdoor life; Natural history; Human ecology; Biography; Naturalists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ecology : A Pathway to Connecting with Nature; title: pt. 1. Connecting with Nature, an Ecological Approach : Goals, Activities, Field Trips, Nature Stories, Nature's Driving Force for Change; title: Early Memories and the Nature Connection; title: Goals of an Ecological Approach; title: Developing Awareness and Exciting Interest; title: Learning from Successful Cooperative Models; title: Listening in on a Naturalist's Experiences : Nature Walks, Interacting with Plants and Animals in the Field, Nature Stories; title: Evolution, Nature's Driving Force for Change : How Organisms Adapt to Their Environments; title: pt. 2. Nature Bonding : Impediments and Hopeful Prospects; title: The High Cost of Ecological Illiteracy : Isolation of Ecology, Attitudes Toward Nature, Population Explosion; title: Hopeful Prospects : an Historic Message that Almost Succeeded, Some Reasons for Hope.