NLI Newsletter – November 2020

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NLI NewsletterNovember 2020

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Natural Learning Initiative

November 2020

Creating environments for healthy human development and a healthy biosphere for generations to come.

Two children in white dresses run across a wooden bridge in a lush garden, surrounded by greenery and colorful flowers, promoting outdoor play and nature-based learning.

Save The Date!

Mark your calendars! The 20th Anniversary NLI Design Institute – Re-Naturing Urban Childhood: Towards a Healthy, Sustainable Culture has been officially rescheduled for March 25-26, 2021.

Children play in a nature-based outdoor space with sand pit, water table, and greenery, promoting educational and accessible play.

New Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers Webpage!

Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers is an innovative project to improve outdoor spaces for infants and toddlers, birth to 35 months, in 19 childcare centers in Wake, Orange, and Guilford counties, North Carolina.

Outside is the Healthy Place to Be(New Research)

Check out this promising new research on how interaction with the natural environment leads to stronger immune systems in young children.

Two children explore nature in a leafy forest, engaging in outdoor learning and discovery.

Outdoor play area with natural elements, colorful chairs, and a rain barrel, promoting nature-based learning and accessibility.

Newly Released InfoSheets!

Check out the newly released Infosheets including Benefits of Engaging Children with Nature, Top Ten Activity Settings , Affordable Settings and Components , Gathering Settings Created with Logs,

Sand Play Settings , Acoustic Play Settings , Making Newspaper Seedling Pots , Starting Veggies Indoors , Growing Edibles in Containers , and Tire Planters.

The Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments certificate course

REGISTRATION OPENS December 7, 2020

Family enjoying outdoor play, children in nature-based environment, educational playground design.

Natural Learning at Home®November

This publication includes simple seasonal recipes, activities, and facts that can be used in both childcare centers and at home. These fun resources are a great way to celebrate the fall season.

Girl in superhero cape jumps in cityscape, promoting child-friendly public spaces post-pandemic.

Making Cities Child-Friendly in the Post Pandemic World

NLI’s Robin Moore will be joining speakers from different regions of the world drawn from academics, art, architecture, and planning, play practice, education, sharing ideas about improving post-pandemic cities for children, government, and UN agencies.