A list of animated kids shows that promote environmental awareness and encourage kids to get out and into nature.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, every 8th grader learns to canoe in the Grand River. Milwaukee’s public school district is now home to five new greenspaces. In Austin, nature-based learning is integrated ...

Studies suggest nature can help lower stress and boost attention. Researchers and educators say it can also help kids express creativity.

You’re having a tough day so you get outside and boom! The sky, the fresh air and the trees all combine to lift your mood. And once you begin to walk or move outdoors in nature on a regular basis, you ...

Lucy, accompanied by her butterfly staffy, leads Oak class students and teacher Joey Schoen as they run towards the nearby farm at Dodge Nature Preschool on July 7 in West St. Paul.

Although nature-based play spaces for children that include plants, trees, and rocks are growing in popularity, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support anecdotal claims that playing ...

As a mother of two, Emma Flanders found it extremely difficult to find outdoor and nature-filled activities for her kids to enjoy. Everything seemed to be an indoor, super-structured setting, a screen ...

More than a thousand studies (and growing) show that time spent in nature can have a reset effect, washing away the anxieties and stresses of everyday life. A 2019 study published in Current ...

When Julie Ernst’s daughter was 8, she often played in a small stick fort behind their house. When Ernst went outside to get her daughter for dance class one day, she saw her “frosting” mud cupcakes. ...

Pooja Sarin Tandon and Danette Swanson Glassy, authors of the new book, “Digging Into Nature: Outdoor Adventures for Happier and Healthier Kids,” know more than a little bit about their subject.

Spending purposeful time in nature benefits kids in many ways, says an educator from Council Oak Montessori School in Blue Island. When Council Oak Montessori School moved to its Blue Island location ...

I went to see a Broadway play earlier this week and met a wonderful retired school principal from Florida, Bonnie. She was the one called in to fix schools that were failing. She mentioned a term to ...