resources
Play & Nature-Based Research.
Click below for resources regarding the benefits of Nature and Play for children. Scroll below for our selection of books and websites.
Books
- Reflecting Children’s Lives: A Handbook for Planning Child-Centered Curriculum by Deb Curtis, Margie Carter (and other books by the same authors)
- Elevating Child Care by Janet Lansbury (and books and blogs by the same author)
- A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidenceby Kathy Hirsh-Pasek , Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer
- Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children REALLY Learn – And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff with Diane Eyer
- Crisis in the Kindergarten — Why Children Need to Play in School by Joan Almon & Edward Miller
- Play by Dr. Stuart Brown
- Playing to Learn by Elizabeth Jones and Gretchen Reynolds
- Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive by Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle
- Lisa Murphy On Play: The Foundation of Children’s Learning (and more by the same author)
- The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally by David Elkind (and more by the same author)
