No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard

by Jane Kirkland

No Student Left Indoors is your opportunity to learn and teach about our planet by helping your students to create a field guide to your schoolyard. Whether you're a nature buff or nature-phobe, a literary genius or writing impaired, artistically talented or one who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and teaching gift or challenged students in an urban, suburban, or rural school—you'll wonder why you didn't think of this before.
You'll This is a project for a class, grade, or entire school. It can be a long-term project based on inquiry, investigation, and hands-on learning, The project connects science, language arts, history, creative arts, and technology.

178 pages, Spiral-bound

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Jane Kirkland was a bestselling computer book author when, during a grocery shopping trip, saw a Bald Eagle soaring over the grocery store parking lot. That sighting changed her life and today she is an award-winning nature book author. Jane and her books encourage children, their families and educators to "Take a minute to be in it(tm)" - in nature- each and every day. She is the recipient of the National Arbor Day Foundation's Education Award, two Teacher's Choice Awards, a Writer's Magazine Book Award, and her books have been finalists in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year, and USA BookNews Best Books. Jane has been featured on Animal Planet, PBS, and Comcast's CN8 TV and is a regular guest on WXPN's Kids Corner radio program in Philadelphia. She is a popular keynote speaker at national conferences on children and nature and visits schools, colleges and universities throughout North America. "