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How is this curriculum guide organized?
It’s a field guide and a cookbook, made of a Mentor’s Manual and an Activities Guide.
I. Mentor’s Manual
Shifting Routines and Core Routines of Nature Connection explain the practices that learners do. Repeating these invisibly and visibly all the time, in every way and in every situation, develops good habits for connecting with nature.
Child Passions as Teaching Tools, Questioning and Answering, Storytelling, and Music Making highlight the universal instincts that children and playful adults possess, and show how to use these as doorways through which Core Routines and knowledge of natural history may enter the lives of "children from 1 to 100," that is, everyone.
Book of Nature points to the most fertile places to start when connecting people with natural history. It narrows down the infinite possibilities by emphasizing meaningful relationships.
Natural Cycle and Learning and Teaching Cycles convey a vision of how energies move through a day, a week, or a lifetime, giving you a feel for the rhythm that allows you both to plan and improvise for success.
Indicators of Awareness paints a handful of universal character traits fostered through connecting with nature. They describe the goals of Coyote Mentoring in terms of personal growth that emerges naturally through practicing these routines and activities.
II. Activities' Guide:
Activities begin with a Primer Story, provide a brief How-To, take you Inside the Mind of the Mentor, and expand into Alternatives and Extensions. Each activity cross-references to the Mentor’s Manual.
As you choose activities for your lesson plan, consider which Core Routines to practice through the activity, which Child Passions to tap into, which parts of the Book of Nature could be emphasized, where the activity fits in the Natural Cycle, and which Indicators of Awareness you want to cultivate.
This interweaving allows you to create, adapt, or otherwise "cook" your own activities in your own local ecosystem.