Learning With Nature
Inspiring new book, out now!
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Authors: Marina Robb, Anna Richardson, Victoria Mew
Learning with Nature is aimed at inspiring and supporting adults to get outdoors with young people aged 3 to 16 years old.
This offers over 100 games and activities that connect people with the natural world at little or no cost to themselves.
It includes sections on: caretaking, games, activities through the seasons, wild facts, tool safety, survival and wild foraging.
We have included some example pages!
"This book offers a chance to the youth of today and the nature of tomorrow. It has a wealth of structured, tried and tested projects, ideas and games all designed to allow children to breathe fresh air and engage personally with a real world where their minds and bodies can develop and bloom, burst into life and inspire them to love life."
Chris Packham March 2014
This offers over 100 games and activities that connect people with the natural world at little or no cost to themselves.
It includes sections on: caretaking, games, activities through the seasons, wild facts, tool safety, survival and wild foraging.
We have included some example pages!
"This book offers a chance to the youth of today and the nature of tomorrow. It has a wealth of structured, tried and tested projects, ideas and games all designed to allow children to breathe fresh air and engage personally with a real world where their minds and bodies can develop and bloom, burst into life and inspire them to love life."
Chris Packham March 2014
"Children naturally explore and experiment. It’s part of feeling fully alive, whether this is poking around in streams, climbing trees, or mixing ingredients. Things can sometimes go wrong. But statistically, the chance of anything going seriously wrong is vanishingly small, and the risks can be managed through taking a thoughtful, balanced approach. What is more, these adventurous behaviours lead to all kinds of benefits. These include hardwiring the brain, building and maintaining resilience and in an uncertain world, helping children to be able to manage their choices and grow their capacity to take healthy risks."
Tim Gill, Author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk Averse Society, February 2014
Tim Gill, Author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk Averse Society, February 2014
Why is this book important? This book makes it possible for parents and teachers to get outdoors. It aims to capture the imagination of families and contribute to reversing the current ‘indoor’ trend. It provides a valuable resource for educators to deepen and expand what they already offer.
This year, for the first time we are meeting teachers who have themselves never played or enjoyed the outdoors during their childhood. They don’t know what to ‘do’, and place a low value on the outdoors as a learning environment. We know young people today are spending hours on video games, and that their roaming radius has reduced by about 70 % since 1950’s with the consequent rise in levels of obesity, mental health issues and isolation.
Illustration by: Susan Kelly
