Exploring Nature with Young Children
 Growing Up WILD: Exploring Nature with Young Children is Project WILD's early childhood education activity guide. It builds on the learning styles and interests of young children to foster an interest and appreciation of wildlife and the natural world around them. A variety of activities build positive impressions of nature while aiding children's cognitive growth and development.
The Growing Up WILD Guide:
- Is written for early childhood educators who work with children ages 3 to 7.
- Contains 27 hands-on, field-tested activities that focus on wildlife and nature.
- Is a full-color, 11" x 17", easy-to-use book.
- Features arts and crafts projects, music, conservation activities, reading and math connections, and ways to contunue the learning process at home.
- Blends social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive domains to help foster learning.
- Is targeted to young children and is appropriate for their learning styles, social skills, and cultures.
- Is correlated to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Standards and the Head Start Domains.
The activity guides will be available by attending an approved Growing Up WILD educator workshop. Workshops will be offered through the Ohio Project WILD Volunteer Facilitator Network and by Ohio Division of Wildlife staff. Attendance at general workshops will be free to low cost. Private workshops will be approximately $12/person for the guides. Contact the Ohio Division of Wildlife's Project WILD Coordinator to request a private training. General workshops can be found on our Workshops page. A recently published opinion gives rave reviews on Epinions.com
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