Tahoe Institute for Natural Science releases new Nature Activity book
Submitted by paula on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 11:34am
The Tahoe Institute for Natural Science (TINS) has released its latest Tahoe Nature Activity Book. It will be distributed to every student in Grades 3 through 5 in the Lake Tahoe Unified School District and made freely available to other schools and districts in the Truckee-Tahoe region. The book helps enhance the current science curriculum with fun and challenging activities centered around the natural wonders of Lake Tahoe. Topics include “How to Draw A Western Tanager,” “Tahoe’s Rockin’ Geology,” and “Tahoe at Night.”
“We’ve been really deliberate about making sure that the content lines up with Next Generation Science Standards and the topics that Tahoe teachers are actually covering in their classrooms,” says TINS co-founder and executive director, Will Richardson. “It’s just one of the many ways we hope to help assist Tahoe educators, while inspiring a love of the natural world in children.”
TINS also regularly posts “TaHome Nature Education” lessons to its website. Each lesson builds on locally relevant science topics to serve as the starting point for activities in writing, math, art, history, reading and more. Previous topics include Spring Migration, Sensory Adventure and Tahoe Skies. New TaHome lessons are currently being added every other Monday and can be found on the TINS website by clicking here: www.tinsweb.org/tahome-nature-education.
The activity books, TaHome lessons, and TINS’ nature clubs and camps are all part of the organization’s mission to inspire a curiosity and love of nature by all. Over the past few decades, an overwhelming wave of new research has found time and time again that spending our days in nature benefits humans, young and old. Nature helps promote physical activity, helps our bodies fight disease and illness, decreases physiological stress, improves brain function and creativity, and even helps us sleep.
TINS thanks Mountain Hardware and Sports and the Martis Camp Community Foundation for their generous contributions to help and distribute the activity books.
Activity book versions geared towards Grades K-2 and 3-5 can be downloaded for free or ordered as shipped hardcopies, by clicking here: https://www.tinsweb.org/activitybooks