We always love chatting resources, and we’re happy to share the resources we mentioned during our various talks and activities. Please let us know in the comments below if there’s something we’ve mentioned that we haven’t listed and we’ll get it added.
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Self-Education
Quotes referenced in Amber’s talk
Keeping
The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
Mariah’s post about keeping hour
list of supplies from the keeping session (suggestions on notebooks, markers, watercolors, etc.)
Beech Tree Paper on Etsy – where we purchased the blank notebooks
Inspiration books from the keeping table: Carlo de Vito’s Mark Twain’s Notebooks, Gregory’s The Illustrated Life, Explorers’ Sketchbooks, Canfield’s Theodore Roosevelt in the Field, George Washington’s America
Older kids’ notebook examples during keeping talk: Sage Parnassus, Journey-and-Destination
Nature Study
John Muir Laws’ book, YouTube channel, and blog
References from Virginia Lee’s nature study talk – “Object Teaching or Words and Things” by TGR, “How to Best Study Nature” by JC Medd
Scouting and Mapping
Matt’s slide deck without notes, with larger slides
Compass
Custom topographic maps (recommend 24×36″ size, with 1:24,000 USGS standard zoom)
Raffle
The Hemlock House farm products
Know and Tell by Karen Glass
Other
Paper cutting handicraft – Paper Cutting Old and New
California biography – Jessie Benton Fremont: California Pioneer