Let’s Go Explore Kid’s Activity and Nature Guide
Practice observation, drawing, reading, writing, and discussion while learning how our common local neighbors—fox squirrels and native trees—coexist. With silly questions and prompts that make kids think, a scavenger hunt to inspire engagement, and goofy drawings and cartoons that make for playful learning, Let’s Go Explore offers an option for stir-crazy families or pods who could benefit from an easy change of scenery (just take a walk) while balancing structure with flexibility. Get outside, learn something about where you live, and share in some fun with your kids.
The guide caters to toddlers to early elementary school ages and allows for multiple ages to share at individually appropriate levels. (Imagine it— a whole trip to the neighborhood park during which the siblings cooperate more than they bicker!) Younger learners will need a little outside guidance and help with the reading. Older learners can guide themselves and perhaps take on the role of teacher for the youngsters in their group.
In the United States, collisions with windows kill upwards of one billion birds each year. That’s a lot of birds. Click on the teacher bird at the chalkboard to read a comic about the problem and what kids can do to fix it.
Above: A pigeon’s outline where it flew into a window. See the reflection of the cloud? When birds see reflections in windows, they assume the reflections are real. If they see sky, they think they are flying towards sky. If they see trees reflected, they think they are flying into trees. Birds don’t see glass as the barrier it is, and that’s a big problem.