Category: Schools
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Redefining Play and Connection for Adolescents: Guildford Grammar Year 7 Adventure Playground
In partnership with Guildford Grammar School, Educated by Nature has embarked on an innovative project to bring play back into the lives of Year 7 students through an Adventure Playground.… Read more
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Children, Communities, Consultation, Events, Families, Health, Play, Professionals in the Field, SchoolsMoerlina’s Bush School
We are living in the age of Nature Deficit Disorder. This term, coined by Richard Louv in Last Child in the Woods (2007), brings focus to the increased disconnection between… Read more
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Children & Nature Network 2023 Conference Reflection
As the Children and Nature conference for 2023 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the lessons learned and how they can be integrated into our Educated by… Read more
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Greening Schoolyards Colorado
As a precursor to the Children and Nature Network – Inside Out 2023 Conference in Colorado, Fay and Daniel boarded a bus to check out some schools that had been… Read more
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Botanical Literacy
Recently Daniel and Fay had the privilege of attending and presenting at the Early Childhood Education State Conference in Perth. Surrounded by like-minded presenters and attendees, they had the opportunity… Read more
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When Maths Appears in the Caring Task of Weeding
Under a small stand of Karri and Marri trees, positioned between the road and the school carpark, a group of year 3 and 4 students are snipping Watsonia stems and… Read more
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Outdoor Learning and Permaculture Principles
I have been on tour in Denmark with Kwoorabup Nature School, on the south west coast of Western Australia. One of Kwoorabup’s Walkabout educators, Olly Watkins, is also a drummer… Read more
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Using Games to Teach Empathy
Across KIN Village, Bush Inventors Club and our Nature Connection series we use Wilderness Awareness Games with our participants. Whilst they are excellent icebreakers before a program and a great… Read more
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When We Find Comfort in Nature – A Class Story
Blog by Tamara Johnston and Trudi Bennett The Children in Nature Network (started by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods) is celebrating 15 years of the children… Read more
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Consultation: Encouraging Nature Connection
Imagine a table full of creative tools – carpentry files, sandpaper, whittling tools, string, wool, gumnuts, feathers, paint, flowers, cloth, stones and scissors. Now, imagine an educator who says, “I… Read more