Use these brilliant and often free apps to help you connect with nature on a deeper level by understanding what it is you are seeing or hearing
GET TECH Life is more interesting when you know what you’re looking at or learning about what you can see. Step up identification apps. Use these brilliant and often free apps to help you connect with nature on a deeper level by understanding what it is you
are seeing or hearing. They will make you slow down to look and listen more closely, and expand your horizons when looking outwards, at the stars or clouds, for example. Days at the beach can be enhanced by tracking any boats you
can spot – seeing where it has come from and where it is going – or how about following that helicopter or plane and seeing where it will land? Here are some ideas for things that you could identify: • Stars • Clouds • Butterflies • Moths • Birdsong • Rocks and Crystals • Trees • Plants • Flight tracker • Ship tracker EXPLORE INDOORS Some days require a little indoor time and a slower pace, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be fun too. There are loads of fun indoor activities to do in the home or out and about too. A great place to start is getting involved with your local library. Bookworms will love the ‘Gadgeteers’ Summer Reading Challenge 2022 (check out www. summerreadingchallenge.org.uk).
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