Educating children? / or providing a resources allowing them to address issues at an early age whi..

Educating children? / or providing a resources allowing them to address issues at an early age whi..

1. Issues affecting childen

   • This term is used broadly but is point to enviromental issues  
   • Lost’s connection with outdoors
     • Comment is free If children lose contact with nature they won't fight for it George Monbiot George Monbiot
     • Natural Childhood
       • Natural Childhood By Stephen Moss
   • Obesity and exercise
   • Growing pressure on exam results
   • Climate change
   • Safety concerns have resulting in less unsupervised play
     • Two thirds of parents have outdoor play concerns
   • Key areas which need to be addressed through our programme by linking the below
     • Education
     • Health
     • Community
     • Enviromental
     • Develop a outdoor program which............
       •    Emphasises  is on outdoor visual learning which builds relationship between children and the natural environment.  This can then feed into technology environmental issues and healthy living   
       • Small begginings
         •    Small begging’s Trip to woodland allowing children to play freely or even more structured task such as den building leaf collecting animal spotting. The beginnings of developing an understating of habits and the environmental cycle.   
       • Different habitat and what they supports
         • Could develop visual app which allows children to identify by pictures aspects of differing location. This app could help them show this information in graphs 
       • Living spaces
         • Provided small spaces and allow children to design an impliment there ideas on how they can improve these space from an enviromental stance
       • The bigger pictuer
         •    Expose children to the outdoors at an early age allowing them to gain an appreciations for it and enable them to identify differing elements. This can lead to them identifying future threats to their natural environment and put them onto a life path which could challenge and address  issues