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Illustrations and the Environment
Children’s picture books contain more illustrations of built environments than natural environments. This is the finding of Williams et al. (2012) in The Human-Environment Dialog in Award-winning...
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Does technology make the outdoors more appealing?
An analysis of outdoor activities by Deborah J. Chavez, a specialist in outdoor recreation research, suggests this to be the case. Chavez writes about student reactions to selected outdoor activities...
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Botanical Drawing Camp for Kids in Ohio
Here is the latest at Classes Near You > Ohio! Deborah Kopka, DK Designs www.dkdesigns.org Botanical illustrator, Deborah Kopka is the principal artist at DK Designs. Deborah licenses her artwork,...
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How Children Experience Vegetation
When students arrive in your classroom, what is their attitude towards plants? How did these attitudes form? If you teach a traditional botanical art class, you most likely have enthusiastic students...
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The Plants and Animals Kids See
While plants may not be the most interesting subject to some people, did you know that young children have a genuine interest in plants? What, then, do children know about plants and where do they...
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ArtPlantae to Participate in Garden Festival at UC Riverside
UCR Botanic Gardens Celebrates 50 Years! http://gardens.ucr.edu The University of California Riverside Botanic Garden (UCRBG) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a family garden festival....
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Plant Life Cycles for Kids
Plant reproduction can be as sensitive a topic as human reproduction. This was made clear to me years ago at the, then, L.A. Garden Show when a gentleman disapproved of me displaying the book, Sex in...
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