Last weekend, our family met at South Mountains State Park for a hike and picnic and as a time to be together for the holiday weekend. Aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins. It was our (E, the kids and my) first time hiking there. And it isn’t overstating it to say that the mile hike [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Environmental Education’
Engaged kids are capable of tough hikes
Posted in Children and Nature, Environment, tagged adventurous, children, Environment, Environmental Education, health, Hiking, kids, kids in nature, Nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, No Child Left Inside, outdoors, outside, trails on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
School Water Fountains Prevent Obesity
Posted in Environment, tagged children, Environment, Environmental Education, exercise, health, kids, obesity on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the beginning of the study, there were no statistical differences in the prevalence of overweight kids in the different groups. By the end of the school year, however, children in the schools where water drinking was encouraged were 30 percent less likely to be overweight.
via School Water Fountains to Prevent Obesity – Well Blog [...]
Washington Schools Take Lessons Outside
Posted in Children and Nature, Environment, tagged children, education, Environmental Education, kids, kids in nature, Nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, No Child Left Inside, teachers on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Washington Area Schools, Including Hollin Meadows, Take Lessons Outside – washingtonpost.com.
Five years ago, a small group of parents sought to create a garden at Hollin Meadows. Now, 14,000 square feet of gardens surround the school, and virtually every classroom has spilled outside.
Students measure worms in math classes and plant peanuts when learning about Virginia history. [...]
Obama Emphasizes Connections with Nature in Speech
Posted in Children and Nature, Environment, tagged children, Environmental Education, kids, kids in nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, NDD, No Child Left Inside, outdoors, outside on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama Emphasizes Connections with Nature in Speech – Children & Nature Network (C&NN).
Leaf and STEM
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, education, Environmental Education, Nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, No Child Left Inside, outdoors, outside, science, STEM on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seems like we’ve been hearing nothing but bad news lately. The state of the economy, of course, is front and center for many of us, but our bad news hasn’t been confined to the economy.
We’ve seen bad education news, too. In fact, some of it has been really bad. In December 2008, CMS released results [...]
Taking the environment out of the ghetto
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, Eliot, Environmental Education, environmentalism, Galapagos, literature, Muir, Nature, teachers, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, Wordsworth on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Andy Lombardo] worked with other US and Galapagos teachers to put together a lesson plan called the “Paradox of Paradise,” which ingeniously injects environmental study into a classic literature survey. Literary staples like Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Eliot will be used to illuminate environmental issues—alongside a ’stations’ approach that will also involve non-fiction, artwork, and protest [...]
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