November 01, 2012
By Michael J. Coren
New studies find that the more close to nature a playground is, the more kids like it and the healthier it is for kids. Time to throw out that jungle gym.
You can take homo sapiens out of the wilderness, but not the wilderness out of humans it appears. For decades, scientists have reported our species exhibits a...
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Getting kids outdoors makes them happier, healthier – and smarter
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by Alicia Swanstrom Oct 31, 2012
Liza Sullivan/Through Play
Henry and Jettie Sullivan, 5-year-old twins, would use their times outdoors to role play and reenact scenes from books they read with their mother, Liza Sullivan.
To Liza Sullivan, a mother of two, the Earth is more than the grass beneath her feet. It’s a place where her...
By Laura Clark
Children are being cut off from nature by mollycoddling parents who refuse to let them play out in the rain, climb trees and get dirty, according to a National Trust inquiry. In a report out today, the charity urges parents to give youngsters wellies and a raincoat and send them outdoors to build dens, make mud pies and go bug-hunting. It warns that...
Huffington Post – October 19, 2012 By Jackie Ostfeld The first time I witnessed one of my students being bullied was during the winter of 2002. Fresh out of college, I had just begun my first job as a naturalist with an outdoor environmental education program in South Carolina. One of my students, Amanda* was very tall for her age, overweight and noticeably...
Web Resources to help teachers use the natural world as a classroom
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By Denis Cuff
July 15, 2012
In the words of the renowned philosopher Henry David Thoreau: We need the tonic of wilderness. And yet, in the 21st Century, we find our children increasingly without this ‘tonic’, or what Richard Louv (2011) calls ‘Vitamin N,’ for Nature. All available evidence suggests that young Australians are becoming less likely to engage in free play in outdoor...Winter Sports Park
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The outdoors: Can nature really improve health?
By Julie Deardorff, Tribune newspapersMay 18, 2011
What would life be like if we were as immersed in nature as we are in electronics? In Richard Louv’s world, we’d be happier and...



