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Hoping to Hook Kids on Nature

Delaware Online – October 02, 2012
By Molly Murray

Many of Delaware’s children spend as little as a half-hour each week playing outside, a statistic that prompted state officials to launch an initiative to get youngsters outside and connected to nature. The gap isn’t the fault of kids, according to the report. Schools offer fewer field trips than 10 years ago, teachers get little training in environmental education and there is limited access to some of the state’s largest recreational areas, its school yards, according to the Children in Nature/No Child Left Inside Task Force report. “We share a desire to change the lives of children,” Gov. Jack Markell…

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