Outdoor Classrooms

In the article that I found  had a lot of information about why schools should have a outdoor classroom. The article title is  "When the Outdoors Is Your Classroom…." The purpose of this article is to tell schools about how an outdoor classroom is affecting students’ learning.  In the Chesterfield Montessori school they have an outdoor classroom that teaches students how to care for the environment. It helps students from all ages to learn about science and contribute to the environment. The garden that the students grow helps with school costs that they have to pay for.  Here is the link to the article that I found if you would like to read it: http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2066/Library/IPChecking.asp?http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26200657&site=ehost-live

Kids With Disorders Playing In The Outdoors

This article that I found is by Tammie L. Stenger-Ramsey and Lora Curl. The title of this article is "Leave No Child Inside: Taking Physical Education Out of the Gym." This article is about how many childrens' disorders are linked to spending less time outside called “nature deficit disorder.” They gave an example with a kid with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that when he was younger the doctor gave him many drugs to take. When he got older they spent more time outside on the weekends and all the time though the summer which allowed him to reduce the amount of medicine he was taking. If you get a chance to read the full article you can find it here: http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2066/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&hid=113&sid=2acc4544-f313-4758-add0-e381256f9779%40sessionmgr111

Kids Outside Playing

I found a cool article that is by Jenn Savedge and  title “Parents: How to Start an Outdoor Playgroup.” This article is about how families are putting together a schedule to take their kids in the outdoors. Also in the reading they give ways to structure a plan to start taking kids out in the outdoors. Some of the structuring that the article gives is to find like-minded families, decide on a structure, pay attention to the weather, start a “playborhood”, and make a plan on what you want to do with the kids. To read the rest of this article here is the url: http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Outdoors/Archives/2010/Outdoor-playgroup.aspx

Getting All Kids in the Outdoors

Here is an article that is out of the Missouri Conservationist that is by Carol Mahan and Chris Schmidgall. The title of this article is “Connecting Kids with Nature.” This article it talks about how we should get all kids in the outdoors even the ones with disorders. It also talks about how schools are getting kids involved with the outdoors though school time and out of school to help with their education. They are trying to get kids in the outdoors because kids in this century are spending way too much time indoors and getting overweight. Here is the url to the article if you would like to read of it. http://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/magazine/2010/03/3250_digital.pdf

Article on Parents and Kid in the Outdoor

Here is a interesting article that is by Lynne Harlan. The title of this article is "Our children would greatly benefit from more time outdoors." In the article it talks about how the outdoors gives kids a new look into the world. It gives children the opportunity to experience how to fish and to just be in the outdoors. The article is specifically about how children will have bonding time with their parent that takes them fishing to a trout derby in North Carolina. To read the entire article here is the url:

http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2077/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=AONE&docId=A170927528&source=gale&srcprod=AONE&userGroupName=nwmosu_owens&version=1.0

Why we should leave the outdoors in the classrooms

I found a good article that went well with my blog topic that is by Samantha Cleaver. The title of this article is "Classrooms Are Going Green: How Green Classrooms Are Reconnecting Kids with Nature." This article is talking about how we should get more children involved with the outdoors because it helps with their creativity, cooperation, and even problem solving. It explains how it is hard for schools to teach about the outdoors because No Child Left Behind legislation has forced them to focus more on reading and math. It says how we can get the students to be involved in the environment outside of their classroom. Here is the url to the article that I found if you would like to read it. http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2066/Library/IPChecking.asp?http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2060/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ792953&site=ehost-live