National Parks Will Be Free for Five Days in 2020
The National Park Service announced five fee-free days for the year ahead, applying to the 111 park sites that normally charge visitors. The number of free days is the same as last year, but down from the 10 that were offered in 2017 as part of the National Park Service’s centennial celebration.
Colorado Playgrounds Are Looking More Natural
Playgrounds across Colorado have been redesigned with an emphasis on natural materials such as stumps and boulders instead of slides and swings as part of the ECHO program. ECHO or the Early Childhood Health Outdoors initiative is a joint venture of the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Learning Initiative at North Carolina State University that …. Read More
Adidas Outdoor Introduces City Kids to Climbing with Urban Climbing Project
Adidas Outdoor has launched the Urban Climbing Project, a pilot project introducing the sport of climbing to young people in inner-city Manchester, UK. The project has launched with 83 local schoolchildren from six different primary and secondary schools in the city. Adidas Outdoor hopes to expand the Urban Climbing Project in 2020, offering learn to …. Read More
Children Who Attend Schools with Green Space Are Less Likely to Have ADHD
Researchers at Guangzhou’s South China Institute of Environmental Sciences found that children at schools with more trees and green space are less likely to have ADHD. After assessing the surrounding environments of the schools of almost 60,000 youngsters in China, the study showed that children were less likely to have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder if their school offered …. Read More
Boulder Offers the First City Map Made for (and by) Kids
The Boulder, Colorado-based organization, Growing Up Boulder, has created the nation’s first printed kid-friendly city map, designed to help parents and children find such child-friendly spaces such as parks and nature trails in the city. Growing Up Boulder collaborated with more than 30 organizations and 700 children, caregivers, and teachers to complete the map. The …. Read More
New Woodland Management Resources for Educators
Today the Sylva Foundation launches a set of new woodland management resources for teachers, Forest School leaders and other outdoor educators, through the myForest for Education website. myForest for Education is a free online application that enables educators to produce simple maps and management plans for their outdoor education sites, and has been designed in …. Read More
The Future of Furniture Craft Education
Our Head of Wood School, Joseph Bray, writes about his recent experience completing a Churchill Fellowship exploring furniture education in the US and Scandinavia. Download Joseph Bray’s report for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust: The Future of Furniture Craft Education This time last year I was returning from the first leg of my Churchill travelling …. Read More