Children

Tips for Teaching Outdoors

06/02/2012 admin Environmental education, Outdoors

One of the most exciting ways to teach your students about the natural world is to take them #outdoors. From Audobon Education One of the most exciting ways to teach your students about the natural world is to take them outdoors. Digging in the soil, scooping up handfuls of stream water, and observing animals in [...]

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‘Do Children Have enough space? A View From the Cycle Path

03/15/2012 admin Children, Netherlands Cycling

From Children and Nature Network Who do we campaign for ? Three years ago, David Hembrow posed the rhetorical question “Do the British love their children too?” Comments here below or at Learn From Nature This week, he received an answer in the form of a note which said “For my children in Bristol. Thank you [...]

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From the David Suzuki blog: Explaining ‘Brain on Nature’

11/13/2011 admin Children and Nature, Children's Health

What happens to our brains “on nature”? Dr. Logan: People commonly report that spending time in nature makes them feel better. A series of recent studies provides scientific support for this notion. Sophisticated brain-imaging techniques show that when healthy adults view nature scenes rich in vegetation, areas of the brain associated with emotional stability, empathy, [...]

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Children and Nature : Kids Watching TV? Don’t give up – Get them outdoors!

10/30/2011 admin Be Out There, Children and Nature, Children's Health

The scariest thing about television may not be the array of monster movies lined up on basic US cable this month. National Wildlife Federation blogger Max Greenberg reports. Follow me on http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature and http://twitter.com/#!/NAEE_UK and A new report from Common Sense Media (PDF ) – http://cdn2-www.ec.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/zerotoeightfinal2011.pdf - finds that more than half of all American children between the ages of 0-8 now [...]

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Sad laws …. Treehouse Removal Could Threaten Kids’ Health

10/30/2011 admin Be Out There, Children and Nature, Children's Health

Follow at http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature , http://twitter.com/#!/ChildrenNature , http://twitter.com/#!/search/NAEE_UK A father in Fairfax County, where the National Wildlife Federation is headquartered, recently received word that the treehouse he built for his sons, ages 9 and11, violated county zoning laws and would have to come down. Seems the$1,400 tree house, nice enough for a feature in House Beautiful, required a building variance because it was [...]

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