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summary The use of nature journaling for science learning is a way for teachers to engage their students in a form of record keeping, observation, and interpretation that requires both intellectual and sensory skills. It is a teaching method that is accessible to all students and can open doors for students that self-identify with science or not. Rachel Carson once said, “If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. Once the emotions have been aroused—a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love—then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning.”
Pam Ruch
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Building the Teacher’s Notebook: STEM-Learning through Science-Based Nature Journaling (for Middle-and High School Teachers)