Mindfulness and Creative Nature Play
Mindfulness is inherently connected to children’s creative nature play. This also applies, by extension, to adults who facilitate and/or join children in their imaginative explorations within a natural setting.
Posts from the ‘News’ Category
Mar 20
Green Teacher 118 — Winter 2019
Our Winter 2019 issue includes ten great articles and more than 20 reviews of new wonderful educational resources. Among the highlights, in the cover story, Rochelle Rubinstein has compiled a bevy of scientific findings that collectively point to the environmental and health benefits of using real grass instead of artificial turf. Check out this and other innovative learning strategies in the Winter issue.
Jan 18
Green Teacher 117 — Fall 2018
Many of us have experienced those mindful moments in nature that take us beyond the tangible realm of what we are detecting with our senses “right now” and connect us to intangible notions of wonder that force us to pause and consider just how astounding, or even improbable, the present experience truly is. Little sends me to that special place more than observing migratory birds that have recently landed for a fleeting stop to recharge before the next leg of their transcontinental journey.
It is fitting, then — albeit coincidental — that we feature a bird migration-themed cover story on the first issue of Green Teacher for which I will serve as the new editor.
Conservation through Creative Writing
Exploring conservation through writing and literature may help teachers reach more students
Oct 10
Local Water is Global Water
Science experiments with local water for 7- to 10-year-old student-scientists
Oct 10
What’s the Buzz: Exploring a Bee Colony’s Inner Workings
A hands-on activity exploring a bee colony and the roles of the worker bees
Sun-Powered Lunch Hours
Turning students into renewable energy experts through solar cooking
Oct 10
Oct 10
Do-it-yourself Aquaponics
How learning by doing enabled high school students to grow leafy greens, develop skills, and nurture some hope for the future
