Title Healthy, active and outside! : running an outdoor programme in the early years / Janice Filer

Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- What the research tells us -- Creating the outdoor environment -- Safety for healthy outdoor learning -- Moving outdoors -- Theory into practice -- Assessing children outdoors -- Links with home -- The panned activities -- Final goodbyes Summary "There's a growing awareness that for the good of their health, children need to be out and about more, with their friends, exploring the outdoor world in their own way."--Nicola Butler, Director of the Free Play Network. It is widely acknowledged that children today do not get outdoors often enough and there are serious concerns about children's activity levels and rising associated behavioural, mental and health problems. With such structured and technology-driven lives, it is easy for young children to stay indoors, play on computers and not socialise with other children in a healthy and a Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Outdoor education. Outdoor recreation for children. Play environments. Adventure education. Outdoor learning laboratories. tot lots. EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General. EDUCATION -- Experimental Methods. Outdoor learning laboratories Adventure education Outdoor education Outdoor recreation for children Play environments Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203933091 0203933095 0415436524 9780415436526

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