For Your Binder
Playgrounds, kids and making trouble
May your playground be filled with little troublemaking revolutionaries! #playgrounds #play #parenting #outside #panopticon
Students Who Lose Recess Are the Ones Who Need It Most
Despite evidence that play and social interactions are crucial to cognitive development, schools continue to take recess away. #recess #teaching #learning #outside #movement #DAP #pushdown
Conference notes from Chris Martin, PhD
These are the notes Lisa took from a lecture sponsored by IPA WORLD. Chris Martin shared highlights from his dissertation topic: Everyday assemblages, affect and agency: children's intra-actions with smart phones in outdoor play. #playwork #conferencenotes #play #tech #technology #environment #outside
Improving Children’s Health through Play: Exploring Issues and Recommendations
This report is a collaboration between the Alliance for Childhood and the US Play Coalition acknowledging that while play is making a come-back, we still need rapid, wide-spread progress to avoid additional suffering from play deprivation and to heal children already suffering from it. #play #DAP #playwork #outside #movement #recess
The Dirt on Dirt! How getting dirty outdoors benefits kids
Make two mud pies and call me in the morning! #mud #play #dirt #outside #nature
Why kids should go barefoot more (and probably adults, too)
Our feet were healthier before we started wearing shoes! #play #risk #outside #movement
State of Play: How tot lots became places to build children’s brains
The city has come to realize that it must provide for its children, that they have a right to play as well as to work. NYC Mayor Seth Low, 1903.
So what happened? #play #playgrounds #outside #movement #adventureplaygrounds #playwork Of note, depending on how often you access articles in The New Yorker, you might need to sign up for this one.
Children's Outdoor Play & Learning Environments: Returning to Nature
Limiting playgrounds to manufactured equipment short-changes children of rich, playful, outdoor experiences! #play #outside #nature #movement
Why kids build forts
Children all over the world organize these “special places.” #dens #forts #nature #outside #play
Children's Hideouts- Shelters (Dens): A creation archetype
Did you have the hidden power of knowing about a "secret spot"? #dens #forts #outside #play
The crucial role of recess in school
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) believes that recess is a crucial component of a child's development and should not be withheld for punitive or academic reasons. Of note: this position statement was reaffirmed by the AAP in 2016. #recess #DAP #play #teaching #learning #outside #movement
