Posts in Deep Roots Nature School
At Home With The Gopher Tortoise- Activity and Read Aloud

The Gopher Tortoise is a Florida Keystone Species! Believe it or not, more than 350 different kinds of animals may share a gopher tortoise’s burrow. Most, such as lizards and toads, slip in on occasion for some of the same reasons the tortoise does. Spiders and snakes go in to find food. And some, such as the gopher cricket, live nowhere else on Earth!

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The Case for Nature Education
Becca's Fab Five Nature Inspired Gifts.. for Outdoorsy Folks!

My family spends a ton of time in the outdoors- Hiking, Camping, Playing in the woods. We love the outdoors and we are always looking for more ways to really engage our family in a deeper Nature Connection. Let’s be honest, though, that we are also always looking for ways to make these activities flow more smoothly. If you know a family that loves the outdoors, these suggestions just might come in handy!

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Camping and Trail Review: Alafia River State Park

From here, the trip finally began to show promise. We entered excellent tree cover and almost immediately found what we were looking for off to the right. These trails are everything we wanted with tons of tree cover, difficult terrain, scrambles, climbing and amazing old trees! This is where you should go to hike.

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Journal 1/23/19: In Pursuit of Knowledge- Kids in the Woods

With a renewed sense of responsibility and an awareness of the good that can be accomplished (if he could just harness the power of fire), he sets out into the woods to try to decipher what items will burn. What will work as tender, what will light quickly or burn slowly?

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Deep Roots Nature School Kicked off This Week!

It can be a bit difficult to transition from the over-scheduled, entertainment-filled expectations of the outside world to the setting of Nature School. Often times, we struggle with the desire to fill every second and keep kids on the move. We wrestle with the ability to give kids responsibility and then back off and let them do their thing. We fear the problems they will encounter and the big feelings they might have to feel. This is a disservice to our young people!

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3 Nature Awareness Activities That Take Less Than 5 Minutes

Nature Awareness is getting a lot of buzz these days.

There is a good reason for that, too! The benefits of time spent in nature abound and include some pretty important stuff, like sensory development in children, activating the Default Made Network in the brain at any age, and simply working our ability to actually USE our senses. Bringing Nature Awareness activities into your home doesn't have to be some elaborate endeavor!

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