http://www.mothernaturesmovie.com/ Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today....
National Kids to Parks Day Set for May 19, 2012
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Classroom Contest Encourages Kids to Plan New & Exciting Ways to Explore Outdoors
Children, parents and teachers are gearing up for this year's National Kids to Parks Day (KTP), a nation-wide day of outdoor play organized by National Park Trust (NPT) in...
Education in the Outdoors
By Erin Crowell
Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School
Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook...Thank You Sarah (Frey) Rose and Frey Foundation! Over the 2011 holiday, Getting Kids Outdoors was honored to receive a donation from Ms. Sarah (Frey) Rose, trustee of the Frey Foundation. These funds are to be used to support GKO and its efforts to do what it does best - get kids outdoors! On behalf of Getting Kids Outdoors' volunteers and partners, we would like...
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THE “VITAMIN N” PRESCRIPTION – Some Health Professionals Now Recommending Nature Time for Children and Adults
About the Author
Richard Louv is Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Children and Nature Network. He is the author of "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder"and "The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder."By Richard Louv on July 26th, 2011
In 2009, Janet Ady of the
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What happens when children spend time in natural environments – and what happens if they do not? What does the empirical evidence say? And what other insights might the research literature hold? These were the questions that I wanted to answer in my literature review [pdf link] for the Sowing the Seeds project – published on...
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Quarterly Updates from the Natural Teachers Network
The Natural Teachers Network newsletter is now linked to our C&NN Connect Natural Teachers group. Share and learn from other "Natural Teachers" by joining the NTN group and adding to the discussion. This month's theme is “No Room for the Summertime Schoolyard Habitat Blues.”...
“Kids, it's time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation and get your hands dirty.”
- Margaret DeRitter, Kalamazoo Gazette
- Margaret DeRitter, Kalamazoo Gazette
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