Creating an environment where children can safely explore is essential to building strong bodies and critical thinkers. When the environment is controlled to eliminate any or all risks, children may lose some of their ability to weigh, ponder, and consider their actions and decisions.
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Red-breasted Nuthatch in Flight
Check out this slow motion clip of a Red-breasted Nuthatch in flight! Filmed by Joe Riederer.
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Getting Started with Inquiry
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Urban Ecology is the story of how the UEC operations and programming began in a double-wide trailer at Riverside Park, Milwaukee, to expand to three elegant LEED-certified Urban Ecology Centers annually serving more than 60 schools and 200,000 children, families, and adults of all ages.
Wherever we live, we share our spaces with birds. Brian Collins (Teacher of the Year and birder extraordinaire) and Naomi Hadley (Natural Resources Foundation Birdathon Coordinator) will explore how to introduce your students to these fascinating wild neighbors.
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Help FIELD Edventures take learning outside and engage the rock-skipping, frog-catching spirit that lives in each of us!
Join FIELD Edventures and author Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell for a live reading of her book Under in the Mud.
Join us online for our last campfire chat of 2020! FREEWednesday, December 16th from 4-5pm Central Time.
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OverviewFIELD Edventures connects with educators to explore the outdoors, foster inquiry, and engage learners through discovery to engage the rock-skipping, frog-catchi
Place-based Outdoor InquiryField Edventures uses a place-based outdoor inquiry approach to learning, which couples the principles of place-based education with the use