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GREEN RIBBON SCHOOLS
Steve Amos, Executive Director
Healthy World Healthy Child and Green Ribbon SchoolsHouston
October 8, 2012
Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren't
… natural environment and wild animals have all but disappeared
… suggests this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world.
…
Source: Children at Risk
CATALYST FOR G
REEN RIBBO
N SCH
OO
LSNature Deficit DisorderBOUT
WH
Y GREEN
RIBBON
SCHO
OLS?
Before the What…Let’s talk about WHY Green Ribbon Schools
Reduce obesity...... stewards of resources...
... improve test scores... ... trim budgets!
What is GRS?
GRS - PERM
ISSION
BASED – PU
RPOSEFU
L IN
TERACTION
SGreen Ribbon Schools – Children in Nature Coalition
www.greenribbonschools.org
GREAT PU
BLISHED
ACTIVITIESGreat Published Activities
JOY O
F DISCO
VERY Student Voice
http://greenribbonschools.org/activity-detail.php?id=488
4th Grade Fishing TripZelma Hutsell Elementary - Katy, TX
HEALTH
IER, HAPPIER, SM
ARTERIt’s About the Kids – Wellness - Future
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PARTNER TO
IMPACT CH
ANG
EExtend the Walls
“As our case is new,
so we must think anew,
and
act anew.”
President Abraham Lincoln
“Kids don’t think about their health”
“Not cool … not discussed …”
District Teacher of the Year and a Culinary Arts Teacher
Extend Healthivores Within Fabric of the SchoolEstablish a Culture of Wellness
Where it is Cool to Think and Act‘Cause YOU are Worth It
KN
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TO
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CT
"Engaging children in nature exploration and play
helps prevent obesity and related diseases, nurtures physical fitness,
enhances overall development and well being, and
adds fundamental dimensions to learning science concepts
not available in the confines of classrooms.”
Dr. Joe Frost, the Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Texas Children in Nature Coalition member
"Children ...may spend their childhoods with little or no opportunity to play in clean dirt, swim in clear, running streams, hear and see animals in their natural habitats, feel the sensations of walking through meadows and woodlands on dewy mornings, climb trees, and explore wild places.
These are the experiences that bond children to the natural world, sharpen their senses, inspire a sense of beauty, build emerging concepts of biology, geology, physics, and language.
And they are critical brain building experiences for complementing the physical , social, and cognitive skills developed in recess, free playground play, and compact nature areas in backyards, schoolyards, and neighborhood parks."
Dr. Joe Frost, the Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Texas Children in Nature Coalition member
HEALTH
IER, HAPPIER, SM
ARTER, KIDS
Next Steps- Using the GRS website
• Sign up on GRS site – no charge
• Start a project relating to YOUR project
• Include your organization name in the “key words, tags” when the teacher sets up a project
• Students publish photos and videos
• Tip: Have teacher include you as moderator to help review work and approve publishing
• Publish project results and show progress over time
• Tip: check out the intro videos on home page and help
• Have fun www.greenribbonschools.org