Please feel free to send us other resources that we can add to our list!


Articles 


Palmberg, I.E. & J. Kuru. (2000) “Outdoor Activities as a Basis for Environmental Responsibility.” Journal of Environmental Education, 31(4), 31-36.

Tilbury, D. (1994). “The critical learning years for environmental education.” In R.A. Wilson (Ed.). Environmental Education at the Early Childhood Level. Washington, D.C.: North American Association for Environmental Education, 11-13.

Wilson, R.A. (1994). “Enhancing the Outdoor Learning Environment of Preschool Programmes.” Environmental Education, 46, 26-27.

Books

Carson, R. (1998). The Sense of Wonder. New York: Harper Collins.

Louv, R. (2006). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books.

Nabhan, G.P. & S. Trimble. (1994). The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston: Beacon Press.

Wilson, R.A. Ed. (1994). Environmental Education at the Early Childhood Level. Troy: North American Association for Environmental Education.

 
Links

South Bellevue Community Center: http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/south_bellevue_center.htm

TRACKS: www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/tracks.htm

Children and Nature Network: www.childrenandnature.org

Fact Sheet on Children’s Health and Nature: www.neefusa.org/assets/files/NIFactSheet.pdf

Green Hearts Institute for Nature in Childhood: www.greenheartsinc.org

National Forum on Children and Nature: www.forumonchildrenandnature.org

National Environmental Education Foundation: www.neefusa.org

No Child Left Inside Coalition: http://www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=687

Resources, Natural Start Preschool, Bellevue Washington, Nature Preschool

Natural Start Preschool
Bellevue, Washington


With two locations in Bellevue, Natural Start Preschool focuses on the whole child through
creative explorations in nature, art, music, play and emergent learning.