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2011 Interview : 10 Questions for David Attenborough
‘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 [...]
City kids missing out on nature
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 [...]
Sad laws …. Treehouse Removal Could Threaten Kids’ 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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