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NJ Part 1 Slides (What is NJ and Safety Measures)

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NJ Part 1 Slides (What is NJ and Safety Measures)

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1) Take a photo of your nature journal.
2) Click on the '+' button and upload the photo of your nature journal.
3) Write your name and school
4) Please do use these questions as a guide for your reflection of this Nature journaling workshop.
Examples of guiding questions :
-What is nature journaling to you?
-What benefits are there in nature journaling?
-What benefit would nature journaling be for your students?
-What issues might you have/encounter if you ask your students to do this?
5) Once you are done, click on the 'publish' button. :)

We appreciate your input and we believe that everyone will learn from it. Thank you.

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Hi! This is my nature journal for 15/03/2023, SBWR. It is sunny today.

Nature journaling gives me the opportunity to connect with a part of nature, bugs, that I do not like on a day to day basis. I love the colours of nature and this dragonfly caught my eye today because it has yellow. I zoomed in with my phone and took a picture of it. Interestingly, there are veins on the dragonfly wings and the dragonfly has some form of neck! For me, these are new and nature journaling brings me the joy of discovery.

I hope my students can feel the same happiness!

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1) Nature journalling is the recording of the flora and fauna around us. A visual documentation of the natural world.

2) Nature journalling encourage us to study and be more observant to the things around us.

3) Helps students to study the subject matter in great detail, from features to colours.

4) Drown in the pond... plausible.

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Avecinnia alba

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Melastoma malabathricum

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Sonneratia alba

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Intentional rcording of nature let's us be closer to 'nature, open our eyes to observe what is around us. benefits. To slow down, to stop n look and to experience nature 1st hand.
Safety issues

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Nature journaling gives participants the opportunity to hone our observation skills by zeroing in on specific subjects (e.g. plants, insects) instead of “wandering around aimlessly” in nature.

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To me, nature journalling is a way to understand nature better as I observe and record as much details as I can see.
By doing nature journalling, I am prompted to think about what I observe and questions are naturally generated while drawing.
Nature journalling will help my students to appreciate nature as they feel more connected during the process.
Students might face challenges in trying to draw and add colours to their work, perfecting it as much as they can.

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Water gentian flower

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For me, at the end of the journey, nature journalling should invoke a sense curiosity in my students and that the process is more important than the product. I've realised that I definitely can't draw but can annotate reasonably enough. Some issues I think the students will face would be their need for their product to look pleasant enough and may lose focus.

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Nature journaling is a way to process what we see around us and to appreciate the details of the nature we encounter. I think it is beneficial because it gives you an opportunity to slow down to really think about the different things you are looking at instead of just letting it pass you. The process made me feel more curious and connected to the subject I was sketching/annotating.

Perhaps a challenge for students is that they may get impatient with only focusing on one or few things instead of getting to see many things. They may also be very focused on producing a pretty drawing - so it’s important to remind them that it’s a process of learning and focus is not just a pretty sketch.

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Bad drawing

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- nature journaling is where you put what you have seen and learnt into drawings and annotations as a form of reflection

- challenges: younger kids might take a much longer time to draw and annotate down the info during the journey. Perhaps they could be given a camera for them to capture the image and jot down quick notes, and they draw them out later as a form of reflection

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Pearlyn (SBPS)
Nature journaling hones observation skills and allows us to remember better what we have seen. Information can be added on to the journal - good for inquiry and reflection :)

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I think nature journalling is documentation of an experience with nature. Its benefit includes making observation more intentional and helping one build knowledge about nature.

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Would have done a better job drawing a more distinct / macro subject, but I reminded myself that the point of journalling is to learn. Had trouble distinguishing the sea almond from the sea lettuce - leaves looked the same, so I wanted to uncover more traits that might set them apart. The mind tends to aggregate images as a whole, so I appreciate how journalling forces the mind to visually dissect the parts. The beauty is in the details. Thanks for the great workshop!

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Nature journaling to me is my ‘me’ time to focus on something and not get distracted by any disturbances be it work or housework. It’s a time to connect myself to the object in the environment , natural and built. It is mindfulness journey to find calmness in life.