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Nature based learning, schools, camps, after school programs and other educational programs that integrate significant time spent in nature into the curriculum are becoming more popular.
According to the North American Association for Environmental Education, in the past three years, the number of nature-based preschools, forest kindergartens, and outdoor preschools have doubled in the United States. We’re also seeing this trend in Iowa with a number of new nature based schools opening in the past few years and planning to open soon.
On this edition of
Guests:
Blue Morningsnow, director, Prairie Flower Children’s Center
Katie Christiansen, director, Tamarack Discovery School