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2011 Interview : 10 Questions for David Attenborough

12/31/2011 admin 2011Children and Nature

‘I feel that children should be taught science’ according to David Attenborough. As a teacher and co-chair of NAEE http://twitter.com/#!/NAEE_UK I couldn’t agree more!  From TIME Magazine Your new documentary, Flying Monsters 3D, is about dinosaurs. Aren’t you usually interested in living things, things you can actually film? I don’t think an interest in the natural world [...]

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City kids missing out on nature

11/11/2011 admin Children and NatureCityRichard Louv

A growing disconnection between city children and nature threatens disastrous consequences for the State’s environment, one of WA’s top scientists has warned. Follow me at  http://environmentaleducationuk.wordpress.com/,  http://twitter.com/#!/ChildrenNature and http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature Ric How, a senior curator at the WA Museum, said children in urban environments were becoming oblivious to the natural world. Dr How, who is also an adjunct professor [...]

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Sad laws …. Treehouse Removal Could Threaten Kids’ Health

10/30/2011 admin Be Out ThereChildren and NatureChildren'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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