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An E-STEM public school district near Minneapolis now also offers half-day nature preschool programs. On average, only one in ten nature preschools in the U.S. is part of a K-5 or K-12 school, so we were naturally curious to find out more!
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Nature experiences can foster children's moral development if we model caring practices and share our own sense of wonder and responsibility for the natural world.
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Check out Natural Start's new searchable map and list to see schools and organizations that are part of the Alliance. Join today to put your program on the map!
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Are you considering opening a nature-based preschool? Here are some ideas for thinking through the programmatic decisions you will need to make.
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Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Nature Preschool Programs
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Learning to Care: The Promise of Experiential Learning in Nature for Young Children
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Put Your Program on the Map!
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Program Considerations for Establishing a Nature Preschool
Bright Ideas
The Council of Nature and Forest Preschools seeks volunteers interested in collecting research findings, testimonials, and policy examples that support nature-based learning in early childhood.
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Fiddleheads Forest School follows up with educators to answer questions about STEM teaching in the outdoors.
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The Colorado Health Foundation has awarded the National Wildlife Federation and partners funds to support Early Childhood Health Outdoors, an initiative to bring naturalized outdoor spaces to early childhood education centers across Colorado.
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Feature Story
Nature experiences can play a central role in children's moral development. But we need to start by modeling caring practices and sharing our own sense of wonder and responsibility for the natural world.
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Member Spotlight
The Karen Slattery Educational Research Center for Child Development is a lab school for children from birth to 5 years of age, located at Florida Atlantic University. Environmental education is integrated throughout the curriculum with all age groups—infants to preschoolers.
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