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Nature-Deficit Disorder: How Art and Nature Help Children Focus and Succeed in School
(Psychological Coordinates of Personality Development: Realities and Perspectives, 3rd All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Poltava, Ukraine, 2018-02)
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of being alienated from nature, including attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. This disorder was first named by Richard Louv, whose ...
School Grounds for Learning: Tying Curriculum to the Outdoors
(Project Central, 2018-11-29)
This presentation was given to a graduate lab class at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Kitakyushu, Japan, in November 2018, at the invitation of Dr. Keitaro Ito, colleague and friend of the author. The students were ...
“Hey, That’s My Sandwich!”: Food Waste Recovery, Environmental Stewardship, and School Curriculum
(Solid Waste Association of North America, 2019-02-26)
Over 3.5 years, more than 20 schools in the Kansas City, Missouri, region collected nearly a half ton of food and paper waste from their cafeterias for composting. This presentation, delivered at SWANA’s (a waste management ...
Schoolyard Biodiversity Exchange (SBE): Student Scientists Data Network for Schoolyard Global Biodiversity Habitats
(Ecological Society of America Annual Conference, 2020-08)
Imagine what could happen if students acting as citizen scientists interacted with others around the world, sharing data and designing biodiversity projects. Then imagine how many species could be supported if school grounds ...
Year 1: Pollinating My Doctoral Journey
(2020-05-12)
Biodiversity is decreasing around the world. An international network for teachers and students to utilize in growing biodiverse schoolyards would make much more habitat available. Questions to ask include: How can schoolyards ...