50 Hikes with Kids Virginia and Maryland - Alison Humphreys, Wendy Gorton

50 Hikes with Kids Virginia and Maryland

With Delaware, West Virginia, and Washington DC
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2024
Timber Press (Verlag)
978-1-64326-162-1 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
The latest entry into the bestselling 50 Hikes with Kids series highlights the most kid-friendly trails in Virginia. Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Washington DC. It offers all the basics-maps, length of hike, simple scavenger hunts along the trail-plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology.
Discover the 50 most kid-friendly hikes in the mid-Atlantic states with this book featuring maps and scavenger hunts of items to find along each trail-plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology!

In the latest addition to the 50 Hikes with Kids series, educators Wendy Gorton and Alison Humphreys give your family everything you need to explore the riversides, forests, mountains, and canyons of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Washington DC. Readers will find easy-to-read trail maps, intuitive directions, elevation and length details for every hike, restroom information, and places to grab a snack nearby. Plus, scavenger hunts for each trail make it fun for even the youngest trekkers to learn about local flora, fauna, and geology. Hikes include the Alapocas Run, the Calvert Cliffs, Theodore Roosevelt Island, the Blue Ridge Tunnel, Harpers Ferry, and more!

Alison Humphreys holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and is a college professor and licensed psychotherapist in private practice. With her background in psychology and early childhood education, she has made a career of helping individuals and families improve their quality of life and has spoken at several national conventions on the topics of mental health and education. Alison homeschools her four young children, with an emphasis on hands-on, child-led learning and unstructured time in nature. Wendy Gorton holds a master's degree in learning technologies and is a former classroom teacher. As part of her quest to bring science education alive, she worked as a National Geographic Fellow in Australia researching Tasmanian devils, a PolarTREC teacher researcher in archaeology in Alaska, an Earthwatch teacher fellow in the Bahamas and New Orleans, and a GoNorth! teacher explorer studying climate change via dogsled in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Today, she is a global education consultant who has traveled to more than fifty countries to design programs, build communities, and inspire other educators to do the same.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 300 photos, 50 maps, 50 elevation
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika USA
ISBN-10 1-64326-162-2 / 1643261622
ISBN-13 978-1-64326-162-1 / 9781643261621
Zustand Neuware
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