An essential firststep The WHY is essential Essential to what KLB Programming amp Initiatives Healthy Childhood Development The Planet Last Child in the Woods book cover image ID: 700080
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Undoing Nature-Deficit Disorder
An
essential
first-stepSlide2
The
WHY
is essentialSlide3
Essential to what?
KLB Programming & Initiatives
Healthy Childhood Development
The PlanetSlide4
Last Child in the Woods
(book cover image)Slide5
...
essential for children to
interact directly with nature
before
being presented with abstractions about its importance...Slide6
From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50% in the proportion of children
nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities...Slide7
Nature-deficit disorder
describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses…
Such knowledge may inspire us to choose a different path, one that leads to a
nature-child reunion
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The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are
inseparable
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(TREE PIC)Slide10
Schoolyard Enhanced Learning
(book cover image)Slide11
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(PIC of trail)Slide13
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As a matter of fact, our great-grandfathers, who never went anywhere, in actuality, had more experience of the world than we have who have seen everything.
D.H. LawrenceSlide17
How do we support cultural and institutional change?
Model better behavior.
Better planning and land use decisions that make make nature more accessible.
Recognize the necessity and provide unstructured playtime in natural settings.
Ask if in trying to keep children “safe” we are doing them more harm than good.
View nature as both an antidote and teacher.
Help schools partner.
Strive to be imperfect.Slide18
Oregon’s Outdoor School for All
http://www.outdoorschoolforall.org/Slide19
It is not half so important to know as to feel when introducing a young child to the natural world.
Rachel CarsonSlide20
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(PIC OF MABRY)Slide22
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