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Outdoor Play and SportsNumber of resources found: 41
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For Kids: The Environment (references & links) Language: English
Publisher: Natural Resources Defense Council (2008)
Description: This website provides a list of references and links to other websites that are for kids and relate to the environment, animals, plants, habitats, clean water, oceans, air pollution, energy, global warming, recycling, parks, forests, activism.
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Green Hour: Help Kids Discover the Wonder of Nature Language: English
Publisher: National Wildlife Federation (2008)
Description: This is a website presented by the National Wildlife Federation to help support parents in connecting their children to nature. By giving our children a "Green Hour" a day -- a bit of time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world -- we can set them on the path toward physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Site includes activity suggestions, blogs, information, and a parent's guide.
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VERB Language: English
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2006)
Description: VERB™ It’s what you do.
VERB is a Web site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The goal of the site is to encourage children and families to be active. It has suggestions of activities, "how-to" guides, polls and quizzes, and a section for recording activity.
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2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Language: English
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2006)
Description: This website developed by the Federal Government has issued its first-ever Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. They describe the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans. The site offers a blog, quiz, guidelines, and other resources.
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7 Ways to Keep Your Family Fit Indoors Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Inc (2011)
Description: This web article discusses the need to keep the family fit over the winter months. Try these strategies to get your family moving — this winter and all year-round.
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All 4 Kids: Let’s Get Moving!
Language: English
Author: Byington, Teresa
Publisher: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (2008)
Description: This brochure is intended for use with parents and caregivers. It provides general information on physical activities for children. Children need to be active every day, some suggestions for inside and outside.
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Children and Nature Network Language: English
Publisher: Children & Nature Network (2013)
Description: This website includes information on how to connect children with nature with sections for parents, teachers, and the community. The site includes tools, research, resources, and publications.
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Children and Sports (Los Niños y los Deportes) Language: Spanish, English
Publisher: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Updated January 2002)
Description: This fact sheet offers advice to parents on how to help their children get the most out of being involved in sports. According to this publication, parental involvement in the activity is one of the key ways to make sure your child has a healthy experience. Also available in Spanish as "Los Niños y los Deportes at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=Los+Ninos+y+los+Deportes+No.+61."
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Designing Nurturing Outdoor Environments that Connect Children to Nature
Language: English
Author: Wike, Jim
Publisher: CYFERnet Early Childhood Editorial Board (2013)
Description: This webinar provides information about the causes and consequences of children’s disconnection to nature and why children need this connection. Discover how well designed outdoor spaces facilitate healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and social development in a variety of settings (from child care to schools to homes to public spaces). View examples of Nature Explore Outdoor Classrooms and learn more about research-based principles that provide a foundation for creating nurturing outdoor environments.
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Engaging Families in the Quest to Connect Young Children with Nature
Language: English
Author: Wirth, Susan
Publisher: CYFERnet Early Childhood Editorial Board (2013)
Description: This webinar presentation focuses on strategies that build strong child care center and family home-school connections with nature. The presentation showcases activities and the Nature Explore Families Club.foundation for creating nurturing outdoor environments.
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Family Time Work Time: Getting Kids to Cooperate
Language: English, Spanish
Author: Mincemoyer, Claudia
Publisher: Better Kid Care Pennsylvania State University (July 2010)
Description: This newsletter for parents discusses how to get your kids to cooperate, having fun camping out at home, and a warning about the use of infant slings. Also available in Spanish at http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/FTWTEsp/10JulyESPftwt.pdf.
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Family Time Work Time:Why We Need Nature
Language: Spanish, English
Author: Mincemoyer, Claudia
Publisher: Better Kid Care Pennsylvania State University (August 2010)
Description: This newsletter for parents discusses how spending time with nature can have a positive effect on your young, how you can support your child care provider, why afterschool programs for children and youth make a difference and school bus safety. Also available in Spanish at http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/FTWTEsp/10AugESPftwt.pdf.
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Family Time – Audubon Society Language: English
Publisher: Audubon Society (2013)
Description: This section of the Audubon website focuses on families and nature and includes activity ideas, and suggestions for nature outings. It focuses on ways to bring nature into the family’s daily life.
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Going Green with Children
Language: English
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: Children are born with an affinity for nature but safety concerns, a lack of outdoor play spaces, and increased time spent indoors with technology can limit chances for them to learn about and interact with the environment. Children who connect with nature become “active learners” and are more likely to become good stewards of the environment in the future. The resources listed include information on designing play spaces, activities to do with children, buying guides and a list of child-friendly websites about nature and the environment.
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Growing Up Wild! Language: English
Publisher: Council for Environmental Education (2008)
Description: Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that builds on a children's sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore the wildlife and the world around them. It is designed for educators of children ages 3-7 and includes a range of activities and experiences for young children.
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HAPPE: Toddlers in Physical Play Language: English
Author: Parish, Loraine
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children (2006)
Description: This NAEYC journal article focuses on High Autonomy Physical Play Environment (HAPPE). HAPPE motivates and engages toddlers in physical play and builds basic motor skills that are the foundation for lifetime activity.
It also includes another article "Extra: Ideas for engaging toddlers in indoor and outdoor physical play activities".
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Health Benefits to Children from Contact with the Outdoors & Nature Language: English
Author: Charles, Cheryl
Publisher: Children and Nature Network (2012)
Description: This annotated bibliography includes information from articles on how the outdoors and nature impacts children. Included are articles on children's health and well-being, mental and physical health benefits.
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Helping Children Learn to Love the Earth Before We Ask Them to Save It: Developmentally Appropriate Environmental Education for Young Children Language: English
Publisher: Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2005)
Description: This article discusses nature and children provides an overview on how children have become disconnected from nature. It includes information on how adults can provide opportunities for children to learn to love being outdoors interacting with nature.
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Leave No Child Inside Language: English
Author: Louv, Richard
Publisher: Orion Magazine (2007)
Description: This article discusses nature and children and includes information on how businesses and the community can help provide opportunities for children to learn to love being outdoors interacting with nature.
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Let's Get Moving! - Cold-weather activities to keep kids moving Language: English
Publisher: MetroKids Magazine (Jan 2010)
Description: This web article focuses on activities that can be done with children during the cold winter months. Ideas to get started and tips are included. Activity suggestions are included for different age groups.
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Making the Most of Outdoor Time with Preschool Children
Language: English
Author: DeBord, Karen
Publisher: North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service (April 2003)
Description: This fact sheet is for parents and child care providers and explains the importance of quality outdoor play environments for young children. It identifies the necessary components of a high quality setting and gives you help to improve your own outdoor environments.
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Nature Explore Language: English
Publisher: Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (April 2003)
Description: This website is supported by a collaboration of the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. It provides information, research, activities, materials, and resources to encourage and support children's interaction and learning with nature.
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Nature Explore Families Club Kit (free online download) Language: English
Publisher: Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (April 2003)
Description: The Families’ Club kit is packed full of easy to use, developmentally appropriate activities shown to engage families in exploring the natural world together. The kit includes general information and customizable forms to get your club started, a facilitator’s guide with helpful hints on organization, and nine visual, child-friendly activity sheets with facilitator notes specific to each one.
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Parenting the Preschooler: Explore Nature with Your Preschooler
Language: English
Author: LeFebvre, Joan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Extension (May 2011)
Description: This news brief provides information on why children need to have opportunities to be out in nature. Includes activity suggestions.
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Play TAG with Your Kids: Tips to Ensure Positive Competitive Experience
Language: English
Author: Andrews, David
Publisher: Ohio State University Extension (2001)
Description: This is a fact sheet on making competition a positive experience for kids by letting them understand that the core of competition is to have fun no matter who wins.
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Project Wild Language: English
Publisher: Council for Environmental Education (2001)
Description: This website Project wild is a wildlife focused conservation education program for K-12 educators and their students. The site includes conservation and environmental education programs for educators of students in kindergarten through high school.
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Sports Shorts Language: English
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics (2011)
Description: Each issue of the Sports Shorts newletter examines a single sports-related condition and is designed for both physicians and parents. One side has information for the physician and the other side has information for the parent and patient, which can be copied and distributed to families during a health care visit. Sports Shorts has been discontinued but is available as an archive.
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Take it Outside! Language: English
Author: Pica, Rae
Publisher: Excelligence Learning Corporation (2008)
Description: This web article provides an overview of why it's important that children spend time outside. It discusses how outdoor play contributes to learning, teaches children to appreciate nature, and includes some suggestions for activities outdoors.
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The Loss of Children’s Play: A Public Health Issue Language: English
Publisher: Alliance for Childhood (2010)
Description: This policy brief describes the loss of children's play as a public health issue. It outlines the health issues at stake and provides facts about what the impact is in providing opportunities for children to "play".
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Thinking Active Physical Play (TAPP): A Self-Reflection Tool for Supporting Young Children's Active Physical Play in Group Settings Language: English
Publisher: Child Care Meal Time & Active Play Partnerships (2010)
Description: The TAPP is a self-reflective inventory for staff in early childhood settings. Use the reflection to think about supporting active physical play for children, ages 24 months through five years old.
The inventory can be found at http://www.childcaremapp.org/02activeplay/downloads/tapp/short_form.pdf.
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This Never Would Have Happened Indoors: Supporting Preschool-Age Children's Learning in a Nature Explore Classroom in Minnesota Language: English
Author: Bohling, Vicki
Publisher: Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2010)
Description: This study explored the skills young children developed in an intentionally designed outdoor classroom as they engaged with a variety of natural materials. The results of this study will be helpful to policy makers and funding entities as decisions and dollars are applied to children's programming and the design of children‟s environments.
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Young Children Develop Foundational Skills Through Child-initiated Experiences in a Nature Explore Classroom: A Single Case Study in La Canada, California Language: English
Author: Veselack, Ellen
Publisher: Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2011)
Description: This research focuses specifically on preschool-age children’s skill development in outdoor environments, such as intentionally designed Nature Explore Classrooms.
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Young Children Learn Through Authentic Play in a Nature Explore Classroom: A White Paper Based on Research Conducted at Dimensions Early Education Programs in Lincoln, NE Language: English
Author: Miller, Dana
Publisher: Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2009)
Description: This white paper describes research documenting key learning that is occurring for young children when they are engaged in authentic play in a Nature Explore Classroom. It also describes the commitment teachers and administrators have made to provide an intentionally designed outdoor space with a variety of rich, natural materials that children can explore daily with their whole bodies and multiple senses.
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Programming Resource
Bam! Language: English
Publisher: Center for Disease Control (2009)
Description: This Web site was created to answer kids' questions about health, safety and physical fitness. Kids can make a fitness plan and calendar, learn about fitness activities and explore a variety of health topics. There is also an area for teachers with health and science activities.
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Kids Walk-to-School Language: English
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009)
Description: This is the Web site for the Centers for Disease Control Kids Walk-to School program. Kids Walk-to-School is intended to increase children's physical activity by encouraging them to walk or ride their bikes to school accompanied by adults. It also encourages community safety partnerships. The site has information on a variety of health topics such as obesity and nutrition and also contains materials to start the program in a community.
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Music Therapy Engages Children with Autism in Outdoor Play Language: English
Author: Kern, P
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (February 2007)
Description: Using embedded music therapy interventions to support outdoor play of young children with autism in an inclusive community-based child care program.
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Play! Outside: Teaching Parents and Teachers What to do with Children Outdoors
Language: English
Author: DeBord, Karen
Publisher: CYFAR (May 2008)
Description: This presentation at the CYFAR conference focuses on outside play for children. Research indicates that children who spend time outdoors are healthier, play more creatively, have less stress and develop stronger immune systems. This session will share research about the value of outdoor play and ideas to teach child care providers and parents how to engage children in outdoor play in child care programs and at home.
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Quality in Outdoor Environments for Child Care
Language: English
Description: This website provides information on creating and utilizing a high quality learning environment outdoors for young children. A multidisciplinary team was responsible for developing a scale to assess your outdoor learning environment, called The Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS). The site explains the domains of high quality outdoor environments, describes the assessment tool, identifies the team members, and provides a link to purchase the assessment tool.
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Research
Healthy Planet, Healthy Children: Designing Nature into the Daily Spaces of Childhood Language: English
Author: Moore, Robin
Publisher: Wiley (2008)
Description: This chapter in the book, In Biophilic design: the theory, science, and practice of bringing buildings to life, draws on the latest research findings, which suggest that a healthy, therapeutic effect is experienced by children who are directly exposed to nature and explores the roles of physical design in improving the quantity and quality of exposure to nature by integrating it into the built environment.
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Music Therapy Engages Children with Autism in Outdoor Play Language: English
Author: Kern, P
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (February 2007)
Description: Using embedded music therapy interventions to support outdoor play of young children with autism in an inclusive community-based child care program.
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Research Spotlight: Make Time For Free Play
Language: English
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Having time for unstructured play is important for child development. Free play helps to develop executive function, which regulates self-control in later life. It also fosters creative thinking, which some think will become even more important for tomorrow's jobs.
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The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance Language: English
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (July 2010)
Description: This report is a literature review that examines the existing research on the relationship between school-based physical activity, including physical education, and academic performance. It spans 23 years of research and includes 50 studies. The majority of the studies in this review report that physical activity was positively related to academic performance. Most importantly, adding time during the school day for physical activity does not appear to take away from academic performance.
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