Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms: Designing and Implementing Child-Centered Learning Environments

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Create an out of doors learning program

Transform Outside spaces into learning environments where children can enjoy a full range of activities as they spend quality time in nature. This book is stuffed with guidance that will help you plan, design, and create an out of doors learning program that may be a rich, thoughtfully equipped, natural extension of your indoor curriculum. Loaded with practical and creative ideas, it’s also information to help you

Understand how Outside classrooms benefits children’s learning and development
Collaborate with other teachers, administrators, and families to make your Outside classroom a reality
Create development and action plans to strategize and implement changes
Evaluate your Outside environment, program, and practices

Cultivating Outside Classrooms promotes the concept that if you’ll be able to do it indoors, you’ll be able to probably do it out of doors 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 once a young child.


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