Video Project – Call for Stories
The Manitoba Nature Summit has been asked by an amateur filmmaker and MTS On Demand to create a video about the “Getting Children Outdoors”… Read More »Video Project – Call for Stories
General
Happy New Year!
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… Read More »Happy New Year!
M.N.A.C.C MANITOBA NATURE ACTION COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN
MNACC November Meeting- Nature & Your School Are you planning a new play yard at your school? perhaps an adventure playground, butterfly garden and/or… Read More »M.N.A.C.C MANITOBA NATURE ACTION COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN
Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Cheryl
Meet Cheryl Tremblay. Cheryl has been a licensed family childcare provider since 1997 and in 2007 she began to focus on a nature based… Read More »Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Cheryl
Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Kristi Fitzgerald
Meet Kristi Fitzgerald. Kristi currently works for MLA Nellie Kennedy and has previously worked in early childhood environments; supporting children, families and providers for… Read More »Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – Kristi Fitzgerald
Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 2
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… Read More »Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 2
Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 1
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… Read More »Meet the Nature Summit Organizing Committee – part 1
Welcome to NatureSummitMB.com
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… Read More »Welcome to NatureSummitMB.com
Advanced Treasure Hunting
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
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.
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