Children & Nature network

Welcome to the worldwide movement to re-connect children with nature, inspired in part by Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the Woods; Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Nature is a powerful learning tool that can ignite curiosity.

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Every teacher can be a Natural Teacher

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As a teacher, your ability to creatively engage your students with the natural world in their everyday lives can make a huge difference in their health, well-being, and capacity to learn.


Together with families, neighborhoods, and communities, you can play a vital role in getting kids outdoors and helping overcome the epidemic of childhood obesity, growing incidence of ADHD, and increasing rates of school drop outs. Every teacher can be a Natural Teacher and make a positive difference in a child’s life.


We encourage you to join the Natural Teachers Network. As a member of this Network, you will join a growing movement of thousands of existing members of the Children & Nature Network and gain access to regularly updated research, tools, activities and resources. You will receive a personalized Certificate of Participation that states for all to see what it means to be a Natural Teacher, and an “I Am a Natural Teacher” badge that you can display. You are invited to join the Natural Teachers Network group to share with your peers your ideas, successes, and challenges in taking your students outside. You are encouraged to invite other teachers of all disciplines to join the Natural Teachers Network. There is strength in numbers and incredible creativity in diverse points of view.



In the future, with funding and your help, we will be creating a Natural Teachers Guidebook, a Natural Teachers Newsletter, a locator map on the web site to help connect teachers in their own communities, and other tools and resources to improve and expand the Network.