RESEARCH& RESOURCES
Studies, Reports & Publications
Children & Nature Worldwide: An Exploration of Children’s Experiences of the Outdoors and Nature with Associated Risks and Benefits
This document provides an evidence base for the importance of children’s and youth’s connections with nature, now and for the future. Evidence provided in this annotated bibliography of research relates to: 1) children’s experiences of the outdoors and nature, particularly the often limited nature of these experiences and 2) the benefits derived from children’s experiences of the outdoors and nature—both for their healthy development and the protection of the Earth.
Guides & Tool Kits: C&NN tool kits inspire, inform, prepare and support grassroots leaders of all ages to connect all children to nature in their everyday lives.
Natural Teachers Network eGuide
Grand Ideas Bookmark
Together in Nature: Pathways to a Stronger, Closer Family
C&NN’s Community Action Guide: Building the Children & Nature Movement from the Ground Up
![C&NN’s Nature Clubs for Families Tool Kit [ENGLISH]](/uploads/NFN_TK.jpg)
C&NN’s Nature Clubs for Families Tool Kit [ENGLISH]
![C&NN’s Nature Clubs for Families Tool Kit [SPANISH]](/uploads/NFN_TK_SP.jpg)
C&NN’s Nature Clubs for Families Tool Kit [SPANISH]
![C&NN’s Natural Leaders Network Tool Kit [ENGLISH]](/uploads/NLN_TK.jpg)
C&NN’s Natural Leaders Network Tool Kit [ENGLISH]
![C&NN’s Natural Leaders Network Tool Kit [SPANISH]](/uploads/NLN_TK_SP.jpg)
C&NN’s Natural Leaders Network Tool Kit [SPANISH]
C&NN’s Grow Outside Tool Kit: Resources for Pediatricians
C&NN’s Let’s G.O.! (Get Outside) 2012 Tool Kit
Let’s G.O. Packet for Organizers
C&NN’s Natural Service Network Tool Kit
C&NN’s Family Activities, Family Stories: Where Nature Meets Story
Muir House Party Guide
Muir Viewing Guide for Families
Muir Viewing Guide for Educators
"If you go with long-term significance, my pick for the top story of not only 2009 but also of the 21st Century is the pandemic of Nature Deficit Disorder, a term so aptly coined by Richard Louv in his best-selling outdoor book, Last Child in the Woods...."
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net
“Concerns about long-term consequences—affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness—have spawned a national movement to ‘leave no child inside.’ In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grassroots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day.”
— Washington Post
— Washington Post
All of us share a sense of common purpose. We represent many, many others—some we know, and others we have never met. People throughout the world are increasingly connected by a resonance and passion, to create a new common sense for the good health of children today and generations to come.
– Cheryl Charles
– Cheryl Charles
“The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen quickly, spontaneously,
and across the usual social, political, and economic dividing lines.”
— Orion magazine
— Orion magazine
Newsletter Archive
MAY 16 – Grand Ideas
APR 25 – News and Commentary
APR 16 – News and Commentary
MAR 29 – Natural Teachers News
MAR 21 – Natural Families News
FEB 14 – News and Commentary
JAN 31 – News and Commentary
JAN 10 – News and Commentary
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C&NN Publications
As part of our ongoing efforts to build the movement, the Children & Nature Network has published these resources for leaders, organizers, and participants at the local, national, and international levels:
2010 C&NN Report
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Children and Nature 2009: A Report on the Movement to Reconnect Children to the Natural World
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C&NN Community Action Guide: Building the Children & Nature Movement from the Ground Up
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