Dr Claire Warden – författare

We all need time to play in puddles. It is a true delight to be on a walk and discover a puddle and explore how deep and wide it is, as well as how big a splash it makes. Puddles are one of the most wonderful play materials that nature can provide. It is wonderful to see children meet a puddle for the first time and observe it with such awe and wonder. The question for us as practitioners and educators is: how do we use something as simple as a puddle to develop complex learning?

This series of curriculum and nature-based planning journals are designed to provide both a curriculum framework and pages to complete that allow room for the development of child-led inquiries. Understanding the learning when we are outside can be a challenge. This series of books provides the support you need to create high quality programs that all of your team can engage with. Ideas stem from case studies and give planning from two angles. The first is as a context for child-led learning, such as the exploration of puddles. The second is planning lessons about academic subjects to ensure breadth and balance in your program.

The Fascination Series is a way of starting to reveal the opportunities for children to learn with nature, not about it, by not just sitting in it, but by connecting to it. They will take messages from it and start to ponder their significance in terms of the larger issues that face us in modern society, such as sustainability.

Enjoy the stories of how children have explored puddles gathered through Claire''s world renowned Floorbook® documentation and start to see the huge amount of learning that takes place in the process of learning with nature.

This series of curriculum and nature-based planning journals are designed to provide both a curriculum framework of ideas and provocations and unique pages to complete that allow room for the development of child-led inquiries. Understanding the learning when we are outside can be a challenge. This series of books provides the support you need to create high quality programs that all of your team can engage with. Ideas stem from case studies and give planning from two angles. The first is as a context for child-led learning, such as the exploration of charcoal as a medium. The second is planning lessons about academic subjects to ensure breadth and balance in your program linking back to the investigation into charcoal. Two options in one book to bring back the joy to planning.

The Fascination Series is a way of starting to reveal the opportunities for children to learn with nature, not about it, by not just sitting in it, but by connecting to it. Children will remember these experiences and will  start to ponder their significance in terms of the larger issues that face us in modern society, such as sustainability. 

Enjoy the stories of how children have explored charcoal in mark making, paint, making water filters and much more documented through Claire''s world renowned Floorbook® approach and start to see the huge amount of learning that takes place in the process of learning with nature.

The challenge many of us face is balancing the planning paper work with our time interacting with children. We want to be with them, hear their ideas, and engage in the moments of awe and wonder sprinkled throughout the day, but we often feel the tension of needing to be in the office filling in paperwork. Imagine then a way of planning with and for children that brings joy to both adults and children alike. Child-led inquiries are the answer, especially when you know how to document and plan for them through Floorbooks®. This book shares how to develop an emergent curriculum based on children''s fascination with the wind by providing answers to the questions around the adult role, what children understand about the wind, how to assess risk, and how to use two ways of approaching the curriculum. The first is through an integrated emergent curriculum that uses the playfulness of the wind to motivate and engage children. The second is focussed on the lens of separate curriculum areas such as math, language, and science. Both approaches can be seen in practice within the case studies as children can be seen to be involved in shared sustained thinking.

The Fascination Series is a way of starting to reveal the opportunities for children to learn with nature, not about it, by not just sitting in it, but by connecting to it. Children will remember these experiences and will  start to ponder their significance in terms of the larger issues that face us in modern society, such as sustainability. 

Enjoy the stories of how children have explored wind through making kites and dreamcatchers and exploring the effects of the wind on nature as documented through Claire''s world renowned Floorbook® approach, allowing you to see the huge amount of learning that takes place in the process of learning with nature.