Education and Inspiration through the ancient art of storytelling!
The most important thing to know is that every program is can be adapted to include the local flora and fauna, the stories of indigenous peoples, and the local geological and natural history of your region. Every program includes a mix of true stories, poetry, folklore, songs and audience participation. You will note some overlap in the following programs, but you will also note that each has a slightly different emphasis, again, everything is custom tailored to meet your science curriculum. Please Contact Fox to discuss programs designed for specific ecosystems or science themes.
These ecological tales teach scientific facts and theories through myth and song. These stories get students excited about science and draw them into a deeper relationship with their environment. Fox has created these tales with the help of a dragonfly, a hemlock tree, and a mountain lion. He also draws from the writings of the American Naturalist movement, which included writers like Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Aldo Leopold. These stories breathe life into dry bones, allowing the listener to travel through geological time and enter the worlds of molecules and woolly mammoths. From plate tectonics and mineral cycles to metamorphosis and reproductive cycles, these tales make abstract concepts concrete and palpable. The water cycle and the food web come to life in these adventurous stories, many of which can be adapted to include the local geological and natural history.
Many of these stories are on his CD Adventures In Nature I & II
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People who live close to the land share a deep respect for the earth and her creatures. This reverence is best expressed in their folklore and folksongs. From the Amazonian Rainforest to a Japanese Garden, from the Eastern Woodlands of North America to sub-Sahara Africa, Fox will take us on a journey that gives us a deeper appreciation for our homeland and a deeper connection to the earth.
These are the stories of the first Americans. From the Shawnee