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Monday, March 23, 2009

The best natural toy!

"Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, and mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lillies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries, and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education." Luther Burbank

There are many tiny creatures to explore and the wonders of plant life never cease to amaze a child. Children also love to explore the garden with their friends. Here are ten tips for organic gardening with small children: 10 Tips for Organic Gardening with Children

LINKS

http://www.forkids.ca/TheBuddingGardener/gardening-kids-activities
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/about/index.html
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/teach/

http://www.branchhome.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15&products_id=447

BOOKS

http://www.neatsolutions.com/HealthyFoodChoices/Gardening/Gardening_01.html

TOYS

http://www.yellowmoon.org.uk/product.asp?pf_id=K844&src=AW&ref=58498

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

A floral mandala!

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Celebrating Charles Darwin!

Once upon a time there was a little boy who collected birds' eggs and sea shells, beetles and coins, moths and minerals. He wasn’t a very good student, school just bored him. He had some difficulties in memorizing but he never tired of studying the details of the natural world. He was born in Shrewsbury, a rural town in England and he spent hours watching birds and lying under the dining-room table, reading.

As a teenager, he was thrilled by chemistry, biology, botany and geology. His father wanted him to be a doctor. But as he studied at the University of Cambridge, his teachers recognized his potential. Finally, his true talent for natural history blossomed.

One day he was invited to join a ship called Beagle for a trip around the world. It was time to follow his dream! He went as the ship's naturalist and for most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America. He was free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galapagos and he filled dozens of notebooks with careful observations on animals, plants and geology, and collected thousands of specimens, which he sent home for further study.

Darwin later called the Beagle voyage "by far the most important event in my life," saying it "determined my whole career." By the time he returned, he was an established naturalist, well-known in London for the astonishing collections he had sent ahead. The Beagle voyage would provide Darwin with a lifetime of experiences to think about and the seeds of a theory he would work on for the rest of his life.

Charles Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 and this week we celebrate his 200th birthday!

All images taken from the book “The Tree of Life” by Peter Sis

more BOOKS about Darwin
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000332901
http://www.charliesplayhouse.com/Bibliography.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Charles-Darwins-Recipe-Book/dp/0980155738
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3884822/Revealed-the-recipes-that-fuelled-Charles-Darwin.html

TOYS
http://www.charliesplayhouse.com/index.html
http://www.amazon.com/EVOLVING-CHARLES-DARWIN-PC-PLAYSET/dp/B001FXCNE2
http://www.science.siu.edu/zoology/darwin/#bobblehead

Learn all about CHARLES DARWIN – LINKS
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Evolution/Darwin.htm
http://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/library/children
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
http://www.aboutdarwin.com/index.html
http://earlyhumans.mrdonn.org/evolution.html
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ch/Charles_Darwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
http://darwin.gruts.com/
http://darwinbeagle.blogspot.com/

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
http://www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.darwin200.org/
http://darwin-online.org.uk/2009.html
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/darwin/slideshow.html
http://www.kent.ac.uk/whatson/darwin/index.html
http://www.darwin200.org.au/events/
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/darwin/home.html

VIDEOS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7875657.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaQ3wXylOM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4471435322910215458
http://science.discovery.com/videos/galapagos-beyond-darwin-reviewing-darwins-findings.html

Friday, October 10, 2008

Fada Moranga loves Tree-Nation!

Tree-Nation is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification! Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land's productivity and re-generate the soil. By planting your tree, you are not only investing in your own future, but also the future of others.

Supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, Tree-nation is an online community in which you can buy your own tree and become the guardian of a real and happy tree that will be planted in their park in Niger.

Each tree that is planted in Niger is also planted on Nation-Tree virtual map, which you can access directly through the site. Come watch how your happy tree grows big and strong! Tree-Nation wants to show that fighting desertification is not only a good initiative that will reduce the effects of climate change, not to mention improve the lives of thousands of people, but that it can also be rewarding and fun!