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

    By Eric Nelson

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    Create an outdoor learning program

    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.

    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 a young child.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRedleaf Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2015
    ISBN9781605544205
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    Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms: Designing and Implementing Child-Centered Learning Environments
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    Eric Nelson

    Eric Nelson taught writing and literature courses for twenty-six years at Georgia Southern University, where he received the Ruffin Cup in 2009 for sustained excellence in teaching, publishing, and service. He retired, professor emeritus, in 2015, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he teaches part time in the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His six previous poetry collections include Terrestrials, chosen by Maxine Kumin for the X.J. Kennedy Award; The Interpretation of Waking Life, winner of the University of Arkansas Poetry Award, and Some Wonder, which won the 2015 Gival Press Poetry Award.

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