The Children’s School, a school of progressive education located in Berwyn, Illlinois, has asked us to help develop an outdoor awareness curriculum for its students, kindergarten through 5th grade.  Once the curriculum is in place, Nature Education instructors along with The Children’s School faculty will engage the stuents in half-day outdoor experiences emphasizing the “Wonders of the Natural World”, the registered name given to the program.  Appreciation and respect will be the key philosophical themes.

These classes will take place during the three seasons of the 2009-2010 school year–fall, winter, and spring.  Each class wil have an age appropriate curriculum–K-1; 2-3; 4-5–and each will build upon the preceding year’s experiences.

Having been an elementary school teacher for a short time in his early adult years, Ron is particularly excited about this opportunity.  As he often says to adult students as the close of a workshop–“Take what you have learned and pass it on to the children, for it is they who hold the fate of our Earth in their hands.”