Cultivating outdoor classrooms : designing and implementing child-centered learning environments / Eric Nelson.
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- 9781605540252
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 371.384 N425 | Available | 33111008751972 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Create an outdoor learning program
Transform outdoor spaces into learning environments where children can enjoy a full range of activities as they spend quality time in nature. This book is filled with guidance to help you plan, design, and create an outdoor learning program that is a rich, thoughtfully equipped, natural extension of your indoor curriculum. Loaded with practical and creative ideas, it also includes information to help you
Understand how outdoor classrooms benefits children's learning and development
Collaborate with other teachers, administrators, and families to make your outdoor classroom a reality
Create development and action plans to strategize and implement changes
Evaluate your outdoor environment, program, and practices
Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms promotes the idea that if you can do it indoors, you can probably do it outside as well.
Eric Nelson is the founder and director of Child Care Planning Associates, the consulting and training division of the Child Educational Center, Caltech/JPL Community, which he established with his wife in 1979. Eric's consulting specialties include building and playground design and renovation, child care needs assessment and feasibility studies, development of employer-related child care, and staff training and development. Eric's understanding of the value of the outdoors is grounded in a lifetime of hiking his beloved Sierra Nevada Mountains in California since he was a young child.
"There are many ways outdoor spaces can be transformed into fully functioning classrooms where children explore, experiment, and spend quality time in nature. Filled with both simple and large-scale ideas, Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms provides support as you design and implement outdoor learning environments"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The role of the outdoor classroom -- Children and the outdoors -- Working with children in the outdoor classroom -- Getting buy-in from stakeholders -- Getting started -- Evaluating the outdoor classroom -- Program and implementation strategies -- Appendix A: Outdoor classroom staff perception survey -- Appendix B: The outdoor classroom project -- Appendix C: Resources for early childhood educators -- Appendix D: Reading opportunities for children -- Appendix E: Yard design errors -- Appendix F: Sample of ideal scene.