Joseph Kozlowski

When I first became interested in using Utah birds as a core theme for teaching my 2nd-graders I had no idea how it would revolutionize my teaching career and connect me and my students with so many different natural and human communities.

When you take kids to learn outdoors, what is the right balance between academic focus and student-exploration and how can the instructor support such a balance?

Across my years of exploring the majestic outdoors with young children, I’ve experimented with nature journaling.

As a wise outdoor educator, Eric Newell, once told me “Never be too busy outdoors to stop and experience something that excites the kids.”