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teachers, homeschoolers, or anyone seeking to enhance their child’s understanding of or connection to the natural world. These outdoor nature activities also make excellent suggestions for educators and instructors who teach at nature preschools, forest ...
for visiting; 2) recognise preschools’ practices in using available green spaces to enable children to have contact with nature; 3) identify the impact on the outdoor activities provided by preschools of factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic and preschool managers’ awareness of the importance...
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Under a Creative Commonslicense open access Research Highlights • Nature connectedness is consistently higher in girls than in boys. • Nature connectedness declines with age into the early teens, then levels off. • Children in urban schools are less connected to nature than those in rural ...
The Naturalization of Playgrounds Fortunately, there is a growing movement in North America to transform the paradigm for playground design in preschool and kindergarten settings from barren areas of grass, asphalt, and wood chips with manufactured equipment into naturalized environments for children’s ...
While organized sports and playgrounds are great, free, unstructured time in nature – where kids can wander, explore, and create on their own – is invaluable. Bring Nature Indoors: Even when time or space limits outdoor play, nature-based toys, indoor plants, and natural light can help ...
Children discover learning through the wonder of the outdoors at Nature Preschool of Baltimore. A nurturing environment for children to explore and grow.
Additionally, previous studies have shown that children accumulate high levels of vigorous intensity activity when engaged in ball sports in fields or courts, the play areas accounting for the greatest square footage on traditional playgrounds (Graham et al., 2021, Van Kann et al., 2016). However...
Choose nature over playgrounds. Though there is a time and place for a jungle gym, O’Malley encourages one-on-one, unstructured play. “A nature walk is better than the playground because you’re engaged with your kid more,” he said. ...