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....
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...Attend a Teacher Workshop
Fish
• Teachers attend a one-day workshop in the fall to learn how to raise Chinook salmon with their students in their classroom, and release them into a nearby river in the fall. The Salmon in the Classroom program is the seemingly limitless subject matter that can easily cover benchmarks in mathematics, social studies, language and arts,...
Match a Leaf to the right tree A tree that hasn’t started to grow yet...a seed! Red Rocks Something BLUE A Feather Smell a Flower Something that makes NOISE! A sign that an animal has been here. A piece of litter A leaf with teeth Something YOU like A camouflaged animal or insect Something ROUND A cone from an evergreen STOP!...
Name__________________ __________________ Location _____________ Date ________________ Time____________ Air Temp________ Data Collection Weather: ___Sunny ___Rainy ___Windy (How much? Light Breezy Gusty High Winds ) ___Cloudy Soil: ___Wet How far down is it wet? ____inches ___Leaf Litter How deep is it? ____inches ___Sandy How far down to reach it? ...
Make it a priority If it’s not a priority, it won’t happen – given the realities of curriculums, testing, etc. Incorporate nature into the classroom on a consistent basis rather than sporadically – it will build your bag of tricks and your confidence. Set a goal that’s doable. Ex: introduce 1 new nature infusion a week vs. re-doing your whole classroom to be nature...
The Canadian Press A B.C. environmental group is flabbergasted that the publisher of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has sent words like "beaver" and "dandelion" the way of the dodo bird. In the latest version of its dictionary for schoolchildren, Oxford University Press has cut nature terms such as heron, magpie, otter, acorn, clover, ivy, sycamore, willow and...
“Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals attract and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime.”
- Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong
- Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong
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