This volume features articles on exciting science topics and opportunities for teaching children; a testing tool for evaluating bioaffinity; educators' perspectives on tree climbing; impacts of a farm- and nature- based early learning program; and more.
Aventuras Forest School is a 100% outdoors, Spanish-language immersion forest school set primarily in public parks in Los Angeles. Learn more about the program from the school’s founder, Pilar Gonzalez.
Learn how Bend Forest School, a nature immersion early childhood program on 200 acres in Oregon, places emotional literacy at the center of its practices.
Articles in this issue include topics on measuring connection to nature; learning opportunities of children with and without disabilities; beliefs and barriers to sustainability education; and more.
Articles in this issue cover school readiness, teacher roles in an outdoor classroom, attitudes and practices regarding tree climbing, children's environmental identity development, and more.
The Cincinnati Nature Center Preschool is a nature-based program licensed through the state of Ohio. Learn more about their journey to becoming a five-star program and how they made the decision to expand to K-2nd grade this fall.
In this issue, read about knowledge-making and early childhood environmental education; ecological sense-making; decolonial water stories and affective pedagogies; materialism within children's everyday encounters and narratives in a nature-based program; and more.
