Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms:
Designing and Implementing Child-Centered Learning Environments
 Reviews (0) Author: Eric Nelson
Product Code: 540252
ISBN: 978-1-60554-025-2
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. Age Focus: 0-8. Softbound.
Reviews
Review by: Elizabeth Jones, Pacific Oaks College Faculty Emerita and author - February 10, 2012
What is an outdoor classroom? How can you create one? How can you convince others that it's where young children learn best? In this outstanding guide for teachers, parents, and decision-makers, Eric Nelson offers solidly-documented background on why and how to overcome nature-deprivation in children's daily experience in preschool.
Review by: Ed Greene, Senior Advisor at Piramide Approach to Early Learning, Cito - January 28, 2012
Through this reflective work and its myriad examples including illustrative photographs, resources, and planning tools, Eric Nelson unveils the essential elements for establishing and supporting highly engaging quality outdoor environments for young children. This book provides a developmental framework that early childhood practitioners, administrators, and trainers need to effectively address this extremely important aspect of children's play and learning.
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