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Beavers in Spring blog post: https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2014/04/beavers-in-spring.html http://www.beaversww.org/beavers-and-wetlands/about-beavers/ http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/3381.htm http://www.nationaltrappers.com/beaver.html   Book Pick (aff ink): I’m Done! https://amzn.to/2L6RxZV   Beaver Skull Replica https://amzn.to/3caTEYF   Loose Parts Play Facebook Page   Loose Parts Play Facebook Group   Inside Outside Michiana Facebook Page   Loose Parts Nature Play Website

Austin, TX Loose Parts Lending Kits: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/loose-parts-lending-kits-program   Wrap Up Report: https://pardpartnerships.wufoo.com/forms/pdqthsb0s3s6m4/   How to Start a Toy Library: https://www.shareable.net/how-to-start-a-toy-library-12-quick-tips/   Minneapolis Toy Library Q&A: https://newdream.org/downloads/New_Dream_Step_by_Step_Toy_Lending_Library.pdf   https://www.zeroish.org/2018/01/08/real-life-i-started-a-toy-lending-library/   How Toy Libraries Work: https://www.moneycrashers.com/toy-lending-libraries-exchanges/   Why Every City Needs a Toy Library: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/every-city-should-have-toy-library/575272/   USA Toy Library Association: https://www.usatla.org/   Book Pick: Perfect Square by Michael Hall (aff link) https://amzn.to/2KIiPpe   Loose Parts Play Facebook Page   Loose Parts Play Facebook Group   Inside Outside Michiana Facebook Page   Loose Parts Nature Play Website

Natural Start Alliance https://naturalstart.org/   International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education https://naturalstart.org/research/ijecee/volume-7-number-2   Fathers’ Perspectives on Tree Climbing https://naturalstart.org/sites/default/files/journal/8._final_gull_goldstein_rosengarten.pdf   Benefits and Risks of Tree Climbing on Child Development and Resiliency https://naturalstart.org/sites/default/files/journal/6._gull_et_al.pdf   Tree Climbing Podcast Episode: http://loosepartsnatureplay.libsyn.com/tree-climbing   Rain or Shine Mamma: Tree Climbing http://rainorshinemamma.com/parents-stop-worrying-and-let-your-children-climb-trees/     Book Pick:   Children’s Environmental Identity Development (aff link) https://amzn.to/3asHwAj   Book Review: https://naturalstart.org/sites/default/files/journal/9._book_review_environmental_identity.pdf   Loose Parts Play Facebook Page   Loose Parts Play Facebook Group   Inside Outside Michiana Facebook Page   Loose Parts Nature Play Website

Goals: https://az.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdpd12.pd.sci.ballgoals/goals-for-the-understanding-of-balls-and-ramps/ Tutorial to make PVC ramps for outdoors: https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2015/06/loose-parts-nature-play-ramps.html#more Kodo Kids Simple Machines: RAMP handout https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4211daa00c01182f4ee38d460/files/1b846eb2-f501-4fcd-9a7b-74ab0fd2566c/Kodo_Simple_Machines_downloadable_2.pdf   Meeting Standards: Tinker guide page 25 LEARNING GUIDELINES The Physical Sciences #20. Investigate and describe or demonstrate various ways that objects can move. https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Tinker_Kit_Educators_Guide_singles_web.pdf Infants:  https://childhood101.com/baby-play-ideas-vehicles-balls-ramps/   Rube Goldberg machines: http://loosepartsnatureplay.libsyn.com/rube-goldberg-machines   Brain Game Rube Goldberg clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-qs8DsMoZk   Marble Sand Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lII00_v5khU   KodoKids Webi

Slides Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oomMwQiRuRHY94MF5AUexZXDEaZxi51CKdrlO28UuMg/edit?usp=sharing Creating a Facebook Group--lots of ideas and suggestions beyond the set up https://www.mitostudios.com/blog/teachers-how-to-create-a-private-school-facebook-group/   Research Paper on Using FB Live https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282251534_FACEBOOK_AS_A_TOOL_FOR_TEACHING_AND_LEARNING   How to go Live: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/facebook-live-guide Going Live: https://www.campussuite.com/blog/how-to-use-facebook-live-at-school?hs_amp=true   Facebook stands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIn3AopsTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR_tntKxQ8E Paper towel holder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCF-uPQ4zzo https://simplyfutbol.com/diy-phone-stand/   Examples:  Google spreadsheet of LIVE learning opportunities: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1ktokKTiAJsqRs2hVSS1iDDQf25q-548BmhoAxjHMFPw/htmlview   Preschool Music Time https://m.facebook.com/calvarypreschoolwc

Gamification TED talk McGonical https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world?language=en   STEM Teachers Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/STEMteachertribe/   Earlier Grades Option https://steminspired.wordpress.com/tag/breakoutedu/   Free COVID Resource of Breakout.edu   https://www.breakoutedu.com/covid19   Breakout.edu https://www.breakoutedu.com/funathome   Google Drive on Breakout Games: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0BxZZoj1LsIceWWx0alNHRFRIdHc?usp=sharing   Materials (Aff Links):   Breaking into Break out Boxes Book https://amzn.to/2UMqM1b   Escape room “game” https://amzn.to/2JwM0uF   Toolbox https://amzn.to/2wDyZwR   Locks (I got 8 total) 3 number combo https://amzn.to/39vzJkI 3 number combo https://amzn.to/2ydnpZx 3 number combo https://amzn.to/2yjjWZv 4 letter word https://amzn.to/2UxV49f 4 letter word https://amzn.to/2ymPRZd 4 number combo https://amzn.to/2wN8RiU 5 number combo https://amzn.to/2UJR1p4   Hasp (I got 2) https://amzn.to/2UNwmjR Black L

https://52thingsoutside.org/   Printables: https://52thingsoutside.org/printables/   Spring Options: https://52thingsoutside.org/spring/   Smell the earth   Look under a rock / log Listen for the sounds of wildlife Take a wildflower walk Dance in the rain Peek in a pond for tadpoles Plant a seed Observe a sunset   Discover a rainbow Search for a roly-poly Exploring Sounds in Nature: http://loosepartsnatureplay.libsyn.com/exploring-sounds-in-nature   Playing in the Rain: http://loosepartsnatureplay.libsyn.com/playing-in-the-rain     Quote: Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. –Ralph Waldo Emerson   Book Pick (aff link): A Seed is Sleepy https://amzn.to/2xibNEc   Loose Parts Play Facebook Page   Loose Parts Play Facebook Group   Inside Outside Michiana Facebook Page   Loose Parts Nature Play Website

Loose Parts Play BINGO printable:  https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F1l7uW0EuLCTyFRWtwVBnmxEFv1izfHb9y%2Fview%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4e013333d1834bce799c08d7ccd7b0c1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637203099068610858&sdata=ZfivycdLjupoRkQ2AkG7tLWLOq933XMABgXmf%2FiOMGQ%3D&reserved=0 Loose Parts Handout: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com%2F2018%2F12%2Floose-parts-handout.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C99f3e0e492f44ed141ec08d7ca1d70f7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637200100099600441&sdata=9kEDwGJF1wMz26HYteMH6gsQgxSZ0PpPf7gyvBnTQNU%3D&reserved=0 Loose Parts Read Alouds: Rosie Revere Engineer from Space! https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorytimefromspace.com%2Frosie-revere-engineer-2%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C99f3e0e492f44ed141ec08d7ca1d70f7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C63720010

Animal and Bird Sounds: allaboutbirds.org or https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.in.gov%2Fdnr%2Fkids%2F5914.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdb54f35a8c20474bb9a708d7c49be1cd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637194046087829604&sdata=A3ORjMa0OeN5MnNb8a8PpNRSTrqMwLFJDYvs4SCvAfY%3D&reserved=0 Stainless Steel Bucket (aff links): https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2vdz8GA&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdb54f35a8c20474bb9a708d7c49be1cd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637194046087829604&sdata=caOCndE68hRGbMqvr19%2FuMOr3suCrPl9Qyb4ENEgzLU%3D&reserved=0 Wooden Mallets: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3cMlsmQ&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdb54f35a8c20474bb9a708d7c49be1cd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637194046087829604&sdata=tcndTmEsSCjyCjKxK%2Boqh0ZVDOb%2FtjpAgoUN8i9Hrmg%3D&reserved=0 Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not concl

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Willows for Sale—Rusty Keeler https://earthplay.net/product/spring-willow/ Patrick Dougherty: http://www.stickwork.net/ Quote I think that part of my work’s allure is its impermanence, the life cycle that is built into the growth and decay of saplings. My focus has always been the process of building a work and allowing those who pass to enjoy the daily changes or drama of building a sculpture as well as the final product. However, the line between trash and treasure is thin, and the sculptures, like the sticks they are made from, begin to fade after two years.  Often the public imagines that a work of art should be made to last, but I believe that a sculpture, like a good flower bed, has its season. – Patrick Dougherty (source) Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks – the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather’s farm; the branches woven in grandmother’s basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit. --Patric

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Squirrel Appreciation Day—January 21 https://nationaltoday.com/national-squirrel-appreciation-day/   Squirrel facts—Wellfield Botanic Gardens https://www.facebook.com/WellfieldBotanicGardens/photos/a.123076787741389/2596797693702607/?type=3&theater   https://www.facebook.com/WellfieldBotanicGardens/photos/a.123076787741389/2597453073637069/?type=3&theater   Pictures of Taking a Squirrel Walk https://www.facebook.com/InsideOutsideMichiana/posts/1465010006989143?__xts__[0]=68.ARB-_wyeGKuVkqV2zAy6uh465lPOGQVs8KG1gOBo4tzuup9FbjQiHj7WxKPPkBlQRxvXYARkjInhjCpQLMcljANq0rh6tSC17U9KLRLufdytcCijvfSM3YAKKMaBPDTMXZgLmukZm3ZVHvB33I4BUoFTcPC2vBU6v75kHJ43cdDKm-842dK45qC19EGqGj0WHkALEJm7mutZWfdrIdHG2Hg6y02Ranm1E9X_Hwv1MpTqe_Hvs18vSMDrJePr9xzUxgs9grhup2q6Qj76oWeY6-3UTlSOCCo1lMso_GKTiO-Eh6eIUSQ9pHwX-TTz-tsp5i2vfQk1FItv5sFiow5T6PWO9Q&__tn__=-R   Live animals always trump anything else! Take time to watch and observe.   Nature of Teaching https://ag.purdue.edu/extension/nature/Pages/default.aspx   Animal Play Podcast

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