Published 09/18/2024 6:20:52 p.m.

Children are stuck inside, glued to screens. Are ‘forest schools’ the antidote?

Summary by The Mercury News

Nature-based education — sometimes called forest schools, nature preschools or outdoor kindergartens — is based on a straightforward premise: “that it’s really good to have kids outdoors a goodly chunk of their day.”

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Children are stuck inside, glued to screens. Are ‘forest schools’ the antidote?

09/18/2024 6:20:52 p.m.·San Jose, United States

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Children are stuck inside, glued to screens. Are ‘forest schools’ the antidote?

Earthroots Field School’s Jodi Levine helps children up a bank after checking out a creek on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Jodi Levine, executive director of Earthroots Field School, helps a summer camp attendee make a nest in Silverado Canyon on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Zoli, 4, plays with yarn and sticks at Arroyo Nature School in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Chris…

09/18/2024 6:20:52 p.m.

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