Nature Education

Get outdoors or bring the outside in with this collection of ideas for nature based educational opportunities to support the learning and development of children.

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March 31, 2025

Using just a piece of recycling, Dr. Bob demonstrates how to create a quick, easy insect trap for any young…

March 26, 2024

Bamboo Living Walls: Robin Christie

Aotearoa has an amazing variety of bamboo species growing the length and breadth of the…

February 2, 2024

Jojo Huang

I am a newly graduated teacher and I only started teaching at Childspace Northland in January as my…

June 13, 2023

Claire Warden

As adults, our heads are full of possibilities for design. We have had years of visual, auditory,…

February 28, 2023

Pete Moorhouse, UK.Exercising the imagination. Big bang, small hands, big ideas!

Millie (4) has a satisfied radiant glow. She…

September 24, 2022

Introduction

I grew up on a farm where we grew our own food in a large vegetable garden. I spent…

July 12, 2022

Ways to celebrate Matariki/Māori new year in your ECE setting.

During the mid-winter months here in Aotearoa, our skies are…

July 22, 2021

How can we tie RIE influenced practice into an authentically Kiwi environment?

Ko au te taiao, ko te taiao ko…

July 6, 2021

Tamariki and fire learning

At Childspace Karori we view tamariki as “capable and confident” (Ministry of Education 2017). Fire learning…

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