Further Reading & Resources
Find further research, resources and organisations that offer information on learning about our nature world.
WEBSITES
Nature WorksNature Works Everywhere gives teachers, students and families everything they need to start exploring and understanding nature around the globe alongside Nature Conservancy scientists.
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David Suzuki FoundationThe David Suzuki Foundation has a mission to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future. Their vision is that we should act on the understanding that we are all interconnected and interdependent with nature.
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Children & Nature NetworkThe Children & Nature Network is leading the movement to connect all children, their families and communities to nature through innovative ideas, evidence-based resources and tools, broad-based collaboration and support of grassroots leadership.
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The Wild NetworkThe Wild Network shows how it is vital if children, families and communities are to thrive in the 21st century. There aim is to grow Wild Time in families, schools and communities. Wild Time is time spent outdoors, wherever it occurs.
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RSPBThe RSPB is the UK charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and all wildlife. They have developed an excellent series of teaching resources for in and out the classroom
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The woodland trustThe UK's leading woodland conservation charity. Help us plant trees, protect woods and inspire people to enjoy the nature on their doorstep.
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BOOKS
Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and growing body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults. More than just raising an alarm, Louv offers practical solutions and simple ways to heal the broken bond—and many are right in our own backyard.
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The immediacy of Richard Louv's message in Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder galvanized an international movement to reconnect children with nature. Now, in The Nature Principle, Louv reaches even further with a powerful call to action for the rest of us.
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Vitamin N (for “nature”) is a complete prescription for connecting with the power and joy of the natural world right now, with:
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In Your Brain on Nature, physician Eva Selhub and naturopath Alan Logan examine not only the effects of nature on the brain, but the ubiquitous influence of everyday technology on the brain, and how IT overload and its many distractions may even be changing it. Offering an antidote for the technology-addicted, the book outlines emerging nature-based therapies.
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Documentaries
Project Wild thingFilmmaker David Bond is a worried man. His kids' waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors - not like it was back in his day. He decides it's time to get back to nature – literally.
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Planet Earth 2In incredible Planet Earth II is a 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to Planet Earth, which was broadcast in 2006. The series that is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough takes you on a journey to some of the remotest corners of our planet.
This nature documentary is like no other, filmed with the lastest camera technology it captures some of our planets rarest and most unusual creatures like you have never seen before. A truely breath taking documentary that will have you in awe of the nature world. |
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The Brain On NatureMarine biologist Tierney Thys, inventor Tan Le, and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni delve into the inner workings of our brains to figure out the science behind nature's health effects, and how we can enhance those benefits.
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