The Thinking Tree - Wild Wilderness - Adventure Handbook: A Survival Guide & Science Handbook

For those thrust into homeschooling recently, you may not understand how Thinking Tree books work. They are not traditional workbooks with a set of directions that a child uses to practice a skill. Instead, they provide a creative platform and gentle guidance for documenting a study on a particular topic or topics. So you collect a few books, documentaries, activities, etc. related to a topic and use these pages to record what you are learning. We loved using this book with our nature guides and Bear Grylls’s how Survival School for my seven year old. Bear Grylls books are another great companion with this book. The pages give you topics to research and write about (first aid, medicinal plants,shelters,etc.) but sometimes we just use them to record what we are interested in, instead. For example, we don’t hunt so the page on hunting was used for more animal observations. I love the creativity and flexibility of these journals and my son loved the topic of this one!

The Thinking Tree has come out with another winner! What a great book to learn and record your outdoor survival skills including flora and fauna...what's edible, what's poisonous, etc.; how to build fires, tie knots, and make shelter; first aid and orienteering; and how to find and purify water. The book also has some scenarios to practice your survival skills. My son and I are going to take my 10 and 14-year old grandsons and these journals to the woods on a friend's property and have "Survival School!" These are skills everyone should know, especially those who travel, camp, hike, or otherwise are around wilderness areas! Do some research using books, videos, or websites and fill out the journal pages then take them out and practice what you've learned. They have even included survival scenarios!

My kids loved this book and had so much fun completing it and learning. Highly recommend it

Another incredible book by TTT. This is one that I got for my kiddos (8 & 9) and then ordered another for myself because I wanted to learn more about our wilderness alongside them. We LOVE camping and are working towards being more reliant on the land rather than what we pack. This workbook is turning into an incredible resource for us. Yes. You need to self start. Yes, you need to self lead. Yes, you need to pull your resources. All of that is what makes it SO good. There are prompts but people from all around the world can use this book and tailor it to their specific locations. That's the exact beauty of it. Thank you - Again!

Love this book - the concept of learning through creating your own handbook is awesome. Only suggestion for improvement is about the section on dangerous animals - I was surprised insects weren't included while being utterly mystified by what 3 birds there could possibly be to include... We used white-out & changed ours, but it was puzzling to me. A little fine-tuning on the scenarios in the back wouldn't hurt, but less important. Overall though, a good purchase I have already recommended to others. And I shall keep my eyes open for scary birds from now on!

If you love funschooling journals, this one is great. It engages your children to do the research with guided prompts. Its great paired with usbornes survival series and a knot kit. Its not a text book per say it prompts your children to take what they've learned to create their own textbook to their styling. I encourage you to go to funschooling.com

This book is so cool my little guy is 8 his daddy is helping him with this book recently they researched poisonous plants together at the library with this book. Older boys would definetly love doing this on their own. You have everything in here from wild life to plants, survival skills like fire and water and shelter. How to skills like knots,orienteering first side survival bag and different survival scenarios very cool book and I love that my husband and son can do this together my girls could certainly join in easily since thinking tree journals are for family use I can make copies for the children in my home!

I recently purchased this journal, and began using it together with my teenage son. He is very much into video games, and we are using this journal with one of his games that involves survival after a disaster. We've been taking notes related to the game, discovering and discussing survival needs. And how we could prepare ourselves for needed survival during a power outage, or being snowed in and unable to get to town. A very fun and useful journal that can be used in many ways!

I love these books. The whole line by Thinking Tree is fabulous and the best part is that my children love using them. This Science Handbook is the perfect addition to your homeschool curriculum. With space for tons of projects, the elements table and lots of study space for an infinite amount of scientific exploration, it's literally perfect. I can't state that enough. My kids are 5,7 and 9. We love science projects and this book is put together so well that science isn't stressful for us. It keeps all your stuff together in one book. I highly recommend it.

The Thinking Tree - Science Handbook and Portfolio I had high hopes for The Thinking Tree - Science Handbook and Portfolio, but overall I found it disappointing. The concept sounds great: an engaging, creative space for documenting research, discoveries, experiments, and projects, but in practice it felt quite repetitive. Most of the pages are simple prompts, titles, and decorative drawings. Beyond that, it’s essentially just a fancy exercise book. You’re expected to find your own books, resources, vocabulary, and study materials to fill it in. While I understand that independent learning and resource gathering are core parts of homeschooling, it left me wondering why the price is so high for something that provides very little actual content. If you’re already doing the work of choosing your books, and science projects, paying this much for a notebook with prompts doesn’t feel justified. It’s a nice idea, and some families might enjoy the structure, but for me it wasn’t particularly useful or worth the cost.

Brilliant program