CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADAFOREST SCHOOL CANADACHERLENE ELORIAUNCATEGORIZEDPETRA EPERJESI0CONTACTNATURE PRESCHOOL CENTERNATURE PRESCHOOL PROGRAMSLIST OF FORESTS IN CANADANATURE VIDEOS FORESTNATURE BASED PRESCHOOLSNATURE PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM Welcome to the Child & Nature Alliance of Canada. We foster meaningful connections with the outdoors for children and youth. All children and youth should have the opportunity to play and learn in forests, parks, meadows and mud puddles. We work to connect children and youth with nature through policy, research, and practice. EDUCATORS – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA Educators. These resources are for everyone who has, loves, or works directly with kids! Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to start, or you’re comfortable

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Learn to Thrive Outside. Free outdoor learning resources. To begin, click on the character that best represents your role, or click on an area where you’d like to play! EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS Early Childhood Educators. These resources are for everyone who has, loves, or works directly with kids! Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to

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This toolkit was designed to support practitioners who work in the outdoor play sector, enabling them to take a balanced approach to risk and safety when working with children outdoors. The toolkit is the result of a broad collaboration, with input from leading figures in outdoor play, academics, policy makers, and face-to-face practitioners FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL PRACTITIONERS COURSE The Forest and Nature School Practitioners Course is a year-long certificate course that consists of both in-person outdoor, experiential learning, as well as online self-directed learning. We have been offering this course since 2012, adapting and improving it each year based on participant feedback and the ever-evolving Forest/Nature School FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL IN CANADA Preface 4 2014 PREFACE BY DAVID SOBEL David Sobel is senior faculty in the Education Department at Antioch University New England. He is the author of several books and TAKING CARE OF THE HEART THROUGH NATURE, PLAY AND By Lindsay Coulter, Director of Communications, Culture and Community of EPIC Learning Centre in Victoria, B.C. The human experience kind of sucks right now. How do we not get crushed by the magnitude of environmental collapse and devastation plus increasing rates of aggression and fear? PROFILE OF A FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL: FRESH AIR LEARNING Fresh Air Learning is a Forest School based in Metro Vancouver, BC. We’ve been running since 2011 and now have 150 children a year in our programs. We also work with school classes and teachers around the city. Our program connects children to nature through play and hands-on exploration. WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY, “BE CAREFUL!” When You Want to Say, “Be Careful!”. by Petra Eperjesi, Manager of National Programs. “Be careful!”. Saying (shouting) that can be such a knee-jerk reaction when we see kids doing something that we perceive as dangerous. Just today, as a group of students moved further away from us and towards the edge of a big, rocky slope, three CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADAFOREST SCHOOL CANADACHERLENE ELORIAUNCATEGORIZEDPETRA EPERJESI0CONTACTNATURE PRESCHOOL CENTERNATURE PRESCHOOL PROGRAMSLIST OF FORESTS IN CANADANATURE VIDEOS FORESTNATURE BASED PRESCHOOLSNATURE PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM Welcome to the Child & Nature Alliance of Canada. We foster meaningful connections with the outdoors for children and youth. All children and youth should have the opportunity to play and learn in forests, parks, meadows and mud puddles. We work to connect children and youth with nature through policy, research, and practice. EDUCATORS – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA Educators. These resources are for everyone who has, loves, or works directly with kids! Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to start, or you’re comfortable

leading

THRIVE OUTSIDE

Learn to Thrive Outside. Free outdoor learning resources. To begin, click on the character that best represents your role, or click on an area where you’d like to play! EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS Early Childhood Educators. These resources are for everyone who has, loves, or works directly with kids! Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to

RECREATION WORKERS

This toolkit was designed to support practitioners who work in the outdoor play sector, enabling them to take a balanced approach to risk and safety when working with children outdoors. The toolkit is the result of a broad collaboration, with input from leading figures in outdoor play, academics, policy makers, and face-to-face practitioners FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL PRACTITIONERS COURSE The Forest and Nature School Practitioners Course is a year-long certificate course that consists of both in-person outdoor, experiential learning, as well as online self-directed learning. We have been offering this course since 2012, adapting and improving it each year based on participant feedback and the ever-evolving Forest/Nature School FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL IN CANADA Preface 4 2014 PREFACE BY DAVID SOBEL David Sobel is senior faculty in the Education Department at Antioch University New England. He is the author of several books and TAKING CARE OF THE HEART THROUGH NATURE, PLAY AND By Lindsay Coulter, Director of Communications, Culture and Community of EPIC Learning Centre in Victoria, B.C. The human experience kind of sucks right now. How do we not get crushed by the magnitude of environmental collapse and devastation plus increasing rates of aggression and fear? PROFILE OF A FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL: FRESH AIR LEARNING Fresh Air Learning is a Forest School based in Metro Vancouver, BC. We’ve been running since 2011 and now have 150 children a year in our programs. We also work with school classes and teachers around the city. Our program connects children to nature through play and hands-on exploration. WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY, “BE CAREFUL!” When You Want to Say, “Be Careful!”. by Petra Eperjesi, Manager of National Programs. “Be careful!”. Saying (shouting) that can be such a knee-jerk reaction when we see kids doing something that we perceive as dangerous. Just today, as a group of students moved further away from us and towards the edge of a big, rocky slope, three EDUCATORS – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA Educators. These resources are for everyone who has, loves, or works directly with kids! Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to start, or you’re comfortable

leading

SHOP – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA Celebrate the season with heartfelt gifts that connect more children with the natural world. Check out our online store! PARENTS – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA Parents, caregivers, early years educators, teachers, recreation and camp professionals – this is for you! Whether you are looking to take your first steps leading children outdoors and you’re not sure where to start, or you’re comfortable leading children outdoors but CAREGIVERS – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA This toolkit was designed to support practitioners who work in the outdoor play sector, enabling them to take a balanced approach to risk and safety when working with children outdoors. The toolkit is the result of a broad collaboration, with input from leading figures in outdoor play, academics, policy makers, and face-to-face practitioners

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This toolkit was designed to support practitioners who work in the outdoor play sector, enabling them to take a balanced approach to risk and safety when working with children outdoors. The toolkit is the result of a broad collaboration, with input from leading figures in outdoor play, academics, policy makers, and face-to-face practitioners CONTACT – CHILD AND NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA CNAC Headquarters: 411 Corkstown Road, Ottawa, ON, K2K0J5. General e-mail address: admin@childnature.ca. For media requests: media@childnature.ca LEARN ABOUT FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL 2) Forest/Nature School Is a sustained process of regular and repeated sessions in the same outdoor space, supporting children to develop a reciprocal relationship with the Land, and an understanding of themselves as a part of the natural world. WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY, “BE CAREFUL!” When You Want to Say, “Be Careful!”. by Petra Eperjesi, Manager of National Programs. “Be careful!”. Saying (shouting) that can be such a knee-jerk reaction when we see kids doing something that we perceive as dangerous. Just today, as a group of students moved further away from us and towards the edge of a big, rocky slope, three PROFILE OF A FOREST AND NATURE SCHOOL PROGRAM: CLOUDBERRY by Petra Eperjesi, Manager of National Programs, and Laura Molyneux of Cloudberry Forest School. Today in our series of profiles of Forest and Nature School programs across Canada, we're hopping over to St. John's Newfoundland to showcase Cloudberry Forest School. Hi Laura!

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WHAT ITEMS COULD BE IN A FOREST SCHOOL KIT? Pots and pans, pie plates, bread pans, scoops and flippers and whisks. Watering cans, for watering everything and anything. Baskets and ice jewels. Ropes of varying lengths- for hanging tarps, securing ziplines, tightrope-walking, or walking log dogs. Tarps:

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WELCOME TO THE CHILD & NATURE ALLIANCE OF CANADA We foster meaningful connections with the outdoors for children and youth. All children and youth should have the opportunity to play and learn in forests, parks, meadows and mud puddles. We work to connect children and youth with nature through policy, research, and practice. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LAND IS AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO, AND THIS LAND IS INDIGENOUS LAND. But the origins of the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada and Forest School Canada are rooted in white settler thinking and approaches. We are an organization currently led by white settlers, headquartered on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe. We have imposed a settler colonial way of being with the Land because our programs were not co-created with Indigenous people. This approach means we perpetuate and benefit from colonization in the ways that we operate, and this causes harm. We want to repair our relationships with the Indigenous communities and people we have harmed, and, if they are willing, work towards co-creating trusting, safe, and reciprocal relationships with them. From that place of reciprocity, we hope to recreate the Forest and Nature School Practitioners Course, and co-create all future programming with Indigenous partners across Canada. In doing that, we hope that Indigenous and Western worldviews will have equitable voice and space in our programs, so that they are safe, meaningful, and culturally relevant for all participants. Have questions, concerns, or ideas? Please let us know at hlwilson@childnature.ca! *The creation of this statement was guided by the Touchstones of Hope

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