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Video Project – Call for Stories

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  The Manitoba Nature Summit has been asked by an amateur filmmaker and MTS On Demand to create a video about the “Getting Children Outdoors” movement in Manitoba. We would like to hear your stories… 

Happy New Year!

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Today is the first day of a whole new year.  Whether you make New Year resolutions or not I encourage all of you to set aside plenty of time to play outdoors this year. For… 

M.N.A.C.C MANITOBA NATURE ACTION COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN

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  MNACC November Meeting- Nature & Your School Are you planning a new play yard at your school? perhaps an adventure playground, butterfly garden and/or outdoor classroom? If you don’t know where to start or… 

Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Cheryl

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Meet Cheryl Tremblay.   Cheryl has been a licensed family childcare provider since 1997 and in 2007 she began to focus on a nature based curriculum.  She spends as much time as possible outdoors with… 

Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Kristi Fitzgerald

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  Meet Kristi Fitzgerald. Kristi currently works for MLA Nellie Kennedy and has previously worked in early childhood environments; supporting children, families and providers for more than 15 years.  She is our current chairperson, has… 

Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 2

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Meet Mavis Lewis-Webber! Mavis is committed to the idea of getting all children outdoors in  nature and seeks whatever opportunity presents itself to address this goal. As the former treasurer Mavis has been involved since… 

Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 1

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Meet Ruth Lindsey-Armstrong. Although she will deny it vehemently she is the fearless leader – aka the ORIGINAL Chairperson of the Nature Summit. While there were a number of us all thinking the same things… 

Welcome to NatureSummitMB.com

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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. Certainly I’ve lived my whole life through my imagination. But the… 

Advanced Treasure Hunting

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I’ve never hunted for a geo-cache. But I have friends and colleagues who do and descriptions of it sound like the perfect activity to do with children. I’m definitely putting it on my to-do list for this year. I also think that it is the perfect marriage between a love of nature and the use of new technologies.

Nature Summit Manitoba

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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. -Francis Bacon

There is a growing movement of educators who understand that the solution to childhood obesity, and a disconnection to the natural world, is rooted in active nature education programs for children. Schools are building outdoor classrooms,Adventure Playgrounds are growing increasingly common, Early Learning and Care Centres are planting gardens, and administrators are drafting policies about the importance of environmental education.