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Outdoor learning!

I redesigned a school playground for my PhD – and the children got better marks learning outside The need for social distancing due to coronavirus means now is the time for schools across the world to embrace outdoor learning.

Today is Deer Field Day with 200 students. Thanks to the Volunteers from Texas A &M College of Veterinary Medicine for helping to teach Bernham kids.

A lesson in controlled burning.

Today is Quail Field Day for BISD students. Thanks to the Texas Wildlife Association, the Gideon Lincecum Master Naturalists, and all the people who make this a great learning experience for the kids.

Time Spent in Nature Is Good for You Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

To understand how trees transform, dendrochronologists, researchers who study change in trees, have developed a few techniques.

A Day in the Life of a Tree Using new technology, researchers can watch as trees grow, shrink, drink, and breathe.

The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated “Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.”

Trees are our friends.

Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About Belonging and Life “When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.”

Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication” Early European explorers left the continent with visions of gardens in their heads: The Garden of Eden, the Garden of the Hesperides, and other mythic realms of abundance, ease, and endless repose.