Nature School is your destination for kid-friendly nature learning, where you can explore the natural world through engaging reading, beautiful illustrations, and more than 30 hands-on activities.

*2023 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Honor Book*
*2023 American Scientist Holiday Gift Guide Selection*

Kids need a break from screens now more than ever. Screen-free time spent exploring and learning about the outdoors makes for happier, healthier, smarter kids. And playing in nature gives kids confidence and independence, promoting creativity and teaching responsibility. With Nature School, all ages will enjoy connecting with nature and becoming inspired to discover the wild places around them.

Travel through five of earth’s largest biomes, studying plants, animals, and their adaptations for survival—and learn hands-on through nature experiments explained in each lesson.From the arid desert to the salty seashore, investigate extraordinary ecosystems, discovering the role of predators and prey and learning about life cycles, climate, landscape, and more.

Chapters in this book explore plants, animals, and life cycles of:
 

• Temperate Forests
• Deserts
• Seashores
• Grasslands
• Wetlands

Featuring activities and experiments that include:
 

• Bark & Leaf Rubbings
• Desertscape Diorama
• Salt Dough Seashells
• Tornado in a Bottle
• Nature Journaling

The whole family will enjoy learning through Nature School!

Make learning fun and engaging with Nature School: The Workbook, a hands-on, write-in companion activity book to the award-winning Nature School.

Created for children ages 6 to 12, this workbook will get them thinking and keep them coming back for more! Your kids will love completing games, puzzles, and short nature lessons while creating a record of what they’ve learned.

• Over 100 FUN activities—Dive into art, science, reading, logic, geography, and more.
• Learn anytime, anywhere—Bring Nature School: The Workbook with you to the great outdoors, in the car, to school, or while you’re spending time at home.
• Let them show you what they know—This workbook gets children excited about learning and gives them the opportunity to demonstrate what they’ve learned. 

Explore the plants, animals, geography, and landscape of 5 distinct global biomes: temperate forests, deserts, seashore, grasslands, and wetlands. Complete activities about climate, seasons, life cycles, anatomy, and so much more.  

Used alone or alongside the companion book, Nature School, this activity book is sure to inspire a child’s love for everything wild.

Attention, Outdoor Explorers: Let's take a hike! Explore the magic of nature on the trail, in the trees, at the pond ... and maybe right in your own backyard. With this book you'll discover interesting facts about nature all around you, and you can use it to record what you see in the book's observation logs — just like a real explorer! Designed for kids to take out into nature and explore firsthand, the book includes interesting facts, observation logs, reflection prompts, activities, games, crafts, and more! Also includes a magnifying glass and stickers to use while exploring.

• Discover interesting information about the nature around you, including what's in your own backyard! This exciting book is designed to go take on the trail with you as well as help you explore what's in your own neighborhood and backyard!
• Loaded with fun activities: Scavenger hunts, hiking and observation logs, learn to draw animals, crafting with nature such as building a bird house, reflective journaling, bird bingo, and more!
• Fun facts and activities about flowers, trees, insects, birds, amphibians, and animals are included.
• Spiral-bound to lay flat and so notes and drawings can be entered with ease.
• Includes stickers to help complete tasks and a magnifying glass to deeper explore nature!