Wild Tykes Learning Community
Wild Tykes is now expanding to include teachers! This Learning Community is a space where outdoor loving educators around Missouri can come together to support, inspire, and learn. We welcome all grade levels and all experience levels.
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There are so many amazing resources already at our fingertips.
Check out some listed below!
The ANBE provides professional development and community-based initiatives that cultivate equitable access to nature-based education and environmental literacy for all.
The Natural Start Alliance unites organizations and individuals working toward a future in which every young child has access to high-quality education that includes nature and the environment every day.
The C&NN supports and mobilizes leaders, educators, activists, practitioners and parents working to turn the trend of an indoor childhood back out to the benefits of nature–and to increase safe and equitable access to the natural world for all.
The AFKA advances the Forest Kindergarten model through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
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by Angela J Hanscom
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults.
by Peter Gray
Developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion.
by Richard Louv
In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions.
by Richard Louv
Vitamin N is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive, and practical guidebook for the whole family and the wider community, including tips not only for parents eager to share nature with their kids but also for those seeking nature-smart schools, medical professionals, and even careers.
by Juliet Robertson
Juliet Robertson offers tips and tricks to help any teacher develop variety in their teaching. One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it, and this book will give you the confidence to do it.
by Juliet Robertson
A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Juliet Robertson offers a rich resource of ideas that will inspire you to tap into the endless supply of patterns, textures, colours and quantities of the outdoors and deepen children s understanding of maths through hands-on experience.