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Children Need Nature
August 16, 2007
Trauma recovery doesn’t come from a specific tool, but from countless interactions with trustworthy, calm, loving and supportive human beings.
-Louise Godbold, Executive Director, Echo
-Louise Godbold, Executive Director, Echo
Children in today's world are being adversely affected by their diminishing connection with the natural world. To address this concern, the World Forum Foundation has launched the Nature Action Collaborative for Children, which unites action oriented landscape architects, community planners, health specialists, environmentalists, and early childhood educators.
If you want to work with diverse professionals from around the world to reconnect young children with nature, join the Nature Action Collaborative for Children (NACC) today. Membership is FREE and your benefits will be many…
- You will receive our monthly e-newsletter, NACC News, with insights on nature education and updates on events and resources.
- You will be invited to share your nature success stories, to contribute to our online directory of nature resources, and to post information about events of interest to other NACC members.
- You will be able to download, at no cost, PowerPoint files, handouts, and posters.
- Most importantly, if you register now, you will be given advance notification when registrations open for the upcoming Working Forum on Nature Education taking place again at the Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska, July 21 �" 23, 2008. The last Forum sold out two months in advance, so you will want to take advantage of this advance notice to guarantee that you can attend.
Sign up to become a NACC member today!
Valuable Resource on Nature Education
Exchange's newest resource, the Learning with Nature Idea Book, provides a wealth of ideas on how to start reconnecting children in your program with the natural world. The book, which was prepared by Nancy and John Rosenow, two of the leaders in the Nature Action Collaborative for Children, is available for review and purchase.
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Signing (ASL) & Music for Early Learning
Foster deeper learning and memory retention for core educational concepts: ABC’s, Numbers, Colors, Rhymes, Animals and more, by combining American Sign Language and Songs.
Foster deeper learning and memory retention for core educational concepts: ABC’s, Numbers, Colors, Rhymes, Animals and more, by combining American Sign Language and Songs.
Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 Commentsvictoria, bc, Canada
i tried to sign up for the nature action group only to keep being turned down. darn!!! it won't let me sign up and i am involved in organising centres in victoria to naturalize their playspaces and want to connect with others doing similar things. thanks, enid
High/Scope Foundation
Ypsilanti, MI, United States
First of all, let me say how excited I am with the formation of an international initiative to return children to nature and the out-of-doors and away from couches and TV and video games. childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and researchers show a direct correlation with increased time in front of TVs, video and computer games. Also it once again demonstrates to the world's movers and shakers the importance of providing high quality experiences to very young children --- not just so they can succeed in school, but because they will become our planet's stewards. In addition, the timing is excellent, as I am just writing a Teachers Idea book for High/Scope on Science in (and outside of) a Preschool Classroom. My hope is that I can convince teachers to abandon the "science table" with the 5 year old, very dusty birds nest, a partial snake skin, a couple of shriveled leaves, etc and realize that science "happens" in every area of their classroom (and most certainly outside) during many parts of their daily routine. Thank you. Thank you. Our planet is in your debt.
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