Update to Volume One: Benefits to children & youth from contact with nature
"This section provides an update to Volume One of the Children & Nature Network research resources. Its focus is on evidence related to the physical, mental, and social benefits that contact with nature provides to children and youth."
Even though this issue is "so 2008", it's still got a lot of cool research in it.
Some highlights:
- Childhood nature experiences may be an important pathway to adult environmental attitudes and behaviors (Nancy M. Wells and Kristi S. Lekies)
- Spending time outdoors helps prevent myopia in 12-year-olds: "Using data from the Sydney, Australia Myopia study, Rose and colleagues investigate the relationship between near work, midworking distance, and outdoor activities with the prevalence of myopia in 6- and 12-year-old children." (Rose, K. A., Morgan, I. G., Ip, J., Kifley, A., Huynh, S., Smith, W.)
- Children with ADHD concentrate better after walking in a park (Faber Taylor and Kuo)
Children and Nature Network is quite possibly the best "natural" resource out there for parents looking to get their kids involved in outdoor activities. The information and research they provide gives a wide scope of knowledge to anyone interested in what nature can do.
Research and Studies Volume Three September 2008:
http://www.childrenandnature.org/downloads/CNNRsrchVol_03.pdf
Children and Nature Network:
http://www.childrenandnature.org/
"This section provides an update to Volume One of the Children & Nature Network research resources. Its focus is on evidence related to the physical, mental, and social benefits that contact with nature provides to children and youth."
Even though this issue is "so 2008", it's still got a lot of cool research in it.
Some highlights:
- Childhood nature experiences may be an important pathway to adult environmental attitudes and behaviors (Nancy M. Wells and Kristi S. Lekies)
- Spending time outdoors helps prevent myopia in 12-year-olds: "Using data from the Sydney, Australia Myopia study, Rose and colleagues investigate the relationship between near work, midworking distance, and outdoor activities with the prevalence of myopia in 6- and 12-year-old children." (Rose, K. A., Morgan, I. G., Ip, J., Kifley, A., Huynh, S., Smith, W.)
- Children with ADHD concentrate better after walking in a park (Faber Taylor and Kuo)
Children and Nature Network is quite possibly the best "natural" resource out there for parents looking to get their kids involved in outdoor activities. The information and research they provide gives a wide scope of knowledge to anyone interested in what nature can do.
Research and Studies Volume Three September 2008:
http://www.childrenandnature.org/downloads/CNNRsrchVol_03.pdf
Children and Nature Network:
http://www.childrenandnature.org/