Our product, Nature’s Window, puts the power of creating hyper-local, focused field guides in your hands. You control what they include, how they look and how many you print. We are grounded in the vision of supporting local, relevant teaching and educational opportunities.

Nature’s Window can increase ecological literacy, as well as improve critical thinking and spatial orientation skills. It connects people with their immediate environment and encourages interaction with their natural world. Using these personalized, hyper-local materials with young people can develop their connection to community and foster active citizenship.

This effective, revolutionary template tool can be used to create imaginative, interactive field guides for any discipline. Nature’s Window templates are ideal for self paced exploration through community and botanical gardens, historical buildings and sites, art and natural history museums, state and national parks, urban walking tours, and in conjunction with eco and agritourism. Create custom scavenger hunts for events or organizations . Once you’ve experienced the ease and power of creating your own field guides, you will be hooked on using them over and over again.

As our world rapidly changes, so does the way we react to our world. Today, we’re more dependent on technology than ever before. How is all of this technology affecting us? What if our lives were as immersed in nature as they were in technology? The more high tech we become, the more nature we need.A connection to the natural world can boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness and ultimately strengthen human bonds. In short, nature can make us smarter, more spiritual, complete beings and can enrich our society.A growing body of research confirms the benefits of being in nature, and finds that exposure to the great outdoors can improve cognitive function, critical thinking and spatial awareness. Performance on memory and attention tasks greatly improved (increasing test scores an average of 20%) following learning sessions in a natural environment.

Being in nature exposes you to soothing stimuli that engages your involuntary attention, giving your directed-attention a rest and a chance to become rejuvenated. We believe in the power of teaching in nature. We hope our product, Nature’s Window, introduces your students to the power of their natural world and helps them build a brighter and greener tomorrow.

 

 

 

Our founder, Kirk Evans, teaches students to observe, explore and discover their ecological address developing in them a deeper sense of place. He is passionate about nature, and is excited that his hyper-local field guide templates are re-engaging people with their environments.

He designed Nature’s Window for cities, camps, school districts, nature centers, and other conservation minded organizations, but has come to realize the possibilities are endless with his 21st century field identification flashcard.

Our vision is a community where people interact with one another, observing the natural world around them. To bring this vision into reality, we are building a network of people who are focusing their educational pursuits, attention and knowledge to their local ecological address. The developed materials of Eco Teaching Resources build around the ideas of providing enhanced, hyper local teaching materials that will create enriched learning environments, increasing student’s deeper sense of spatial connectivity.

We encourage schools to incorporate ecoliteracy projects into their science courses. It is not only about  creating a better understanding and appreciation for students’ natural surroundings, but to cultivate in them a working knowledge of how to make scientific observations of their environment and to record them in a manner that they can use the information in the classroom.

Our company, Eco Teaching Resources, LLC, develops and supplies hyper-local field guides for cities, camps, school districts, and more. We provide customizable, accurate, alternative teaching materials that create heightened learning environments and enhance how people interact with nature.

We value the visions of modern educators and their ability to create enriched learning experiences, which change the way people understand and interpret their natural environment. We value the opportunities to build our company’s culture by providing the most environmentally and ecologically friendly experiences and products within our educational field.

Through our site you can create your own hyper local, focussed field guides. By subscribing you can design and print many different custom educational pieces for your classroom. You control what they include, how they look and how many you print. We are grounded in the vision of supporting local, relevant teaching and educational opportunities.

Our products can transform citizen science movements into lesson plans and change a field trip from an endless string of distractions into a focused, memorable learning experience.