Children flourish when they learn in nature. It can improve their health, attention capacity and social skills. The enriching experience of outdoor learning can also lead to significant improvements in children’s mood and wellbeing, which...Read more
As Maharashtra suffers more extreme weather, officials are planning to launch the first school curriculum in an Indian state on climate change impacts and cutting carbon.
Students in Maharashtra will start learning about worsening droughts, floods...Read more
A big city might not seem like the best place to learn about nature and the environment. But one group in Washington, D.C. is trying to change that.Read more
As the world struggles to cope with the onset of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, the head of children’s charity UNICEF has warned that another wave of school closures would be ‘disastrous for children’.Read more
COVID-19 disruptions have had a distinct, devastating and potentially enduring impact on our youngest school-aged learners, especially those who were already behind in early language, literacy and numeracy understandings. The pandemic has also taken a...Read more
The Dutch City Farm Federation vSKBN is working closely together with JOGG (Healthy Young People, Healthy Future) for a healthy food assortment on city farms.Read more
Ten primary schools in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, are being given ‘Edible Playgrounds’ through a partnership that could help the city achieve UNICEF child-friendly status.
Cardiff Council is working with Trees for Cities, the UK’s only...Read more
The European Commission has published its vision for how ‘blended learning’ can be a major driver to giving as many children as possible a high quality and inclusive primary and secondary school education.Read more
A park bench can be so much more than just a place to sit and wait. Perhaps it has a puzzle built into it, or weights that allow children to make measurements.Read more
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With the summer break coming to a close, many children – and their parents – will be looking forward to their first day of school. But the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic mean that...Read more
Why do cities overheat? That’s one of the questions being addressed by educators in the Czech municipality of Brno as they teach children about sustainable architecture.Read more
During the pandemic, many children’s lives became ‘digital by default.’ What have we learnt? While children have reported some positive experiences, says Sonia Livingstone of the London School of Economics, digital inequalities and inadequate educational and other...Read more
