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Harwood, Debra; Barratt, Jaime; Collier, Diane – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2019
In this article, we revisit fragments of data from a three-year study, paying close attention to the entanglements and inseparability of child/plastic/snow/GoPro within children's everyday encounters and narratives in an immersive nature-based program in Canada. We query how these entangled ways of being might help inform environmental and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Ecology
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Deaton, Cynthia; Hardin, Catherine – Science and Children, 2014
One way to encourage students to interact with science content and materials is to make science relevant and meaningful. By focusing on the school yard as the context for science lessons and activities, teachers can incorporate students' interest in learning outdoors and help students make connections between science content discussed in…
Descriptors: Ecology, Outdoor Education, Science Education, Grade 2
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Rocca, Lorena; Donadelli, Giovanni; Ziliotto, Sonia – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2012
The increasing complexity of urban regions and the lack of green areas in the neighborhoods have turned the cities less and less child-friendly. In order to locally face these situations, the project "Small steps of Agenda 21," which promoted a participatory planning experience for children focused on the green area of their school, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gardening, Outdoor Education, Sustainability
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Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Gatt, Suzanne; Agius, Catherine; Pizzuto, Sue Anne – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2008
Young Maltese children have experience and knowledge of animals. We explored the range of animal with which they are familiar and the origin of this knowledge. The children interviewed were in Pre School, aged 4 years, and in the first year of compulsory education, aged 5 years Verb l questions and photographs were used as the probe to access…
Descriptors: Animals, Visual Aids, Foreign Countries, Young Children