The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World
by Ph.D. Temple Grandin
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"A guide to exploring the outdoors and asking questions about nature"--Tags
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This book is a fantastic way to get students up and moving, rather in your classroom or at home! The outdoor scientist includes 40 outdoor activities that help promote independent thinking, critical thinking skills and higher level questioning. This is also a great book to help students in younger levels come up with science fair or project ideas, using influences from the book. This can also be a great guide for teachers to create or use within the classroom for hands-on experiments. As well as to create guided projects that allow students to independently work on project while still allowing structure and guidance from the teacher.
This book explores all areas of nature and gives readers the tools to discover even more on their own. With forty projects to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around them, from the depths of space to their own backyard.
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Temple Grandin was born August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a bestselling author, doctor and professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1950. She was immediately placed in a structured nursery, had speech therapy, show more and had a nanny spend hours playing turn-based games with her. At the age of four, she began talking and her progress continued. In 1970, Grandin received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. She received her master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, and in 1989, she received a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Grandin, being a high-functioning autistic, is widely-known for her work in autism advocacy. She has been featured on major televisions programs such as the Today Show and ABC's Primetime Live. She has also been featured in Time magazine, People magazine, Forbes, and the New York Times. Grandin was the subject of the Horizon documentary "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow" and was described by Oliver Sacks in the title of his narrative book: An Anthropologist on Mars. Grandin's bestselling book: Thinking in Pictures is scheduled to be released as an HBO film in 2009. Grandin's Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human have also been bestsellers. Grandin lives in Colorado, but has speaking engagements on autism and cattle handling around the world. show less
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