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Tips for Teaching Outdoors

06/02/2012 admin Environmental educationOutdoors

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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Baden Powell : outdoor man ahead of his time….

02/23/2012 admin CampingScouting

February 22nd is an important date is the Scouting calendar, being as it is the birthday of its founder –  Robert Baden-Powell. Through his book Scouting for Boys and experimental camp at Brownsea Island, Poole Harbour, BP – as he was affectionately known – began a movement of encouraging children, initially only boys,  to enjoy the [...]

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Responding to Nature deficit disorder… by going to Nepal!

01/27/2012 admin Children and Nature

Angela Mollard is putting her digital life on hold to tackle the Nepalese wilderness. What would YOU do? Comment here or at twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature .  FOR a year now, I’’ve had a little quote pinned above my desk. “Tell me,” it says, “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” On a [...]

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USA : Funding Public Parks Could Save Lives

01/01/2012 admin Children and Nature

2011 was not a good year for US parks. From Children and Nature Network and TIME. | Follow me at http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature and facebook.com/NAEEUK This has been a bad year for state and local parks. If you’ve come across park gates that are chained shut or playgrounds that are rusting, as we have, then you know this firsthand. Budget [...]

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