Get 'em Outside.

[carioca56]

Great video.  Thanks!

[insomniacgrace]

I agree! Thanks for sharing. 

[FostersBLUE]

staring at screens is a giant waste of LIFE. It will be over soon so live it dont watch it online.

[shrinkinghorizions]

My Photographic project focused on how our kids are stuck inside but with nature reflected in the windows of their glass boxes, like exotic birds.

Mike O'Toole photographer Dublin Ireland

[shrinkinghorizions]

My Photographic project focused on how our kids are stuck inside but with nature reflected in the windows of their glass boxes, like exotic birds. theshrinkinghorizonsofchildhoo­d.blogspot

Mike O'Toole photographer Dublin Ireland

[adventurelanddaycamp]

Kids need outdoor classrooms!

[pamelasunshinetv]

I work with kids and being outside is so important. Thanks for this.

[RoseAnya]

This is a great little video! Really well done and for a great cause. Makes me want to work with kids outside again. You are really making a difference with this work!

[ChapMagz1861]

Thank you for creating this video. I have an ADHD child and an autistic nephew and believe in not only the academic, but restorative powers of nature. Mahalo nui!

[KansasKACEE]

This video is awesome! Great message for everyone. Getting kids out into nature is so important. Check out our videos about environmental education at our channel KansasKACEE

[FutureAbe]

nam ja!

[dbocaz]

Outstanding!

[spunkyspunkerton]

I am lucky that my home is surrounded by woods, march, and cliffs. Those places were my playgrounds, and ultimately my greatest teacher. I learned more from Nature and my parents then I ever did from school.

[NATESOR]

lol, corporations, lol.

[sk8nska]

this is beyond awesome!kids are more eager to learn when they see what they are learning is relevant to their lives...not just something in a book that theyll never use or see again

[LearnExploreAndPlay]

YES!!!

This is how education should be.

[Sprig482]

Awesome video and awesome book. This is exactly why I chose the career path that I did.

[ascentadventure]

This is so important. Getting kids outside is the best way to educate them.

[AngieLile]

I agree with this concept 100%. You shouldn't have to be in college for Natural Resources in order to get outside to learn about our environment, like it was in my educational past.

[2FaceAngel]

This is how i would love our school to edicate my kids this why they learn about how inportant it is to take care of nature and they better understand what is around them and much more.Wish i had this when i was younger

[shirinehossaini]

Great video. Glad to see people in the WIFV community doing such nice work. And it's good to know that our generation is helping the younger generations to understand their environment. Learning outside the box is a great way to learn!

[jane1220]

Love it! So refreshing to see engaged teachers and engaged students. Nice job.

[tigga7d6]

I work with youth in an after school program and found that some of the obvious basics like a camel and a kangaroo couldn't be identified by intelligent inner city youth that were supposedly "on the honor roll". It is a problem and we as adults need to remember that knowlege is not inherited but passed on. Don't wait on T.V., the internet or teachers to do our job.

[AvangionQ]

Whatever happened to the field trip ... getting kids involved in learning is the best way to teach ... kids will *remember* their lessons if they're interested and think its fun stuff ...

[llrudekid]

1000 Logos x 5 Seconds to identify and record answers = 5000 seconds = 1hr 38min per test. I find this uncited study hard to believe, but i went to public school where all i learned was to distrust athority.

[insaneParker]

did they teach you how to spell?

[cheerleadergirly101]

wow thats such a coool teacher, very inspiring.

[deedeedeekilljoy]

yes true kid should go out =D

[choc6915]

when i see great things like this, i feel like, now wat?

[mayaluvsmusic]

I LOVE THIS

[shiftlessxl]

It's cool though. Parents don't love their kids. Just plop 'em in front of the TV. Don't worry, it actually lets kids with parents that do things with their kids and actually educate them, helps them get the high paying jobs. So, let your kids become zombies. It increases my job security.

[cpiliotis]

My kid's two years old and can recognize more than 10 animals. Monkey Elephant Dog Kitty Cat Horsey Birdy Turtle Frog Bee Butterfly Cow Pig I find it increasingly difficult to parent my kid when there's a world with so many bad parents out there. Too many kids are TV zombies.

[timmytheuser]

i agree, i ate my kids before they could become zombies, got the jump on them

[crosseyed511]

The stat said they couldn't name 10 plants and animals native to their backyard.

Not exactly fair I think, they probably don't have more than 10 plants and animals frequenting their backyard.

[neckwish]

one or two types of trees, a daffodil, daisy, cockroach, caterpillar, fly, dragonfly, yellow jacket wasp, paper wasp, bees, moths, mosquitos, mud dauber, lady bug, earthworm, black ant, red ant, centipede, birds that live in the trees, one or two pets.. that's what, 23 at least?

[oehrlein49]

You have elephants, cows, and monkeys native to your backyard? wow! If not, you're not making a valid comparison to the statistic mentioned in the clip.

[arcooke]

Bees and butterflies are not animals.

[javmasta]

actually they are, they are located under the biological kingdom animalia

[DattuWarptera]

Wrong. Insects belong to the kingdom Animalia. For butterflies, their classification is Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropda, Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera. For bees: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, Order Hymenoptera.

[azjunglist05]

Are you serious? Go take biology again...insects are animals...

[DattuWarptera]

That's what I was saying. I was responding to another person who claimed that butterflies and bees are not animals.

[Destroyer12334]

Its not just "animals". Its animals around their environment. Like a specific birds, or a specific plant. Birdy is one thing. Swallow, sparrow, cardinal, and Blue Jay are another. Show me your two year old can differentiate an Oak Tree from a Birch, or a Maple from an Ash. Thats the real knowledge that is important. I agree about kids being TV Zombies, it is a growing problem. However, at least see the point the video is making, instead of saying you aren't at fault, because we all are.

[aphexmandelbrot]

The logo v. nature study was preformed by Paul Hawken.

ADD is less obvious (or less used as a diagnosis crutch) when the child has something to do.

The correlation between obesity and a screen is inactivity.

It took me 25 seconds to locate the study. Please try to become intimate with Google before spewing ignorance.

[iancorey]

AnacondaHL was clearly raised by TV. Go easy on him/her.

[Rmparker]

This is great! I remember having one class that was like this and it was my favorite class and it was the one i learned the most in. We need more of this type of hands on learning in our schools. Interacting with each other and nature is what will push them to be interested and learn more.

[soran27]

OMG! Critical thinking going on in American schools?!?!

As a concerned global citized I must say, I'm excited with this development...

[christinemm67]

I loved this video. I wish that all children could learn in this way.

I homeschool my children which does not mean they spend all their time indoors doing lessons or that I am their only teacher. My kids did an Audubon Centere class exactly like the class in this video. They are blessed as well to do a 6 hour per week class for 26 weeks a year all spent in nature with experiential learning.

You also need great teachers who love nature and getting wet and muddy to run an effective program.

[obscuredtruth]

As a high level Public School Bureaucrat, in conjunction with federal guidelines, I will work tirelessly to ensure critical thinking does not occur in public schools, and children are not subject to education they enjoy. I promise, these teachers will be punished!

[lordmetroid]

Thank you for doing your duty to society and fostering democratic adults.

[vlsi0n]

Nice video, makes sense that students do better actually being outside and working on what they are learning. =]

[RetepNamenots]

But the problem is, when both parents and teachers are looking at improving the education of kids by their exam results, going outside to experience this type of learning is not only expensive, and whether it's a different type of learning or not, there's not a cat's chance in hell that this would improve exam results. As they said at the beginning, the kids do understand the stuff, they just want to be able to teach it to them in a different way.

[unknownmaddness]

You are all too correct graviteh, ignorance is their prerogative.

[Tkuebrich]

I don't really think its the kids fault themselves that they don't get outside much. I think out door activities should be promoted more in schools and advertisement, McDonald's commercials don't count. When I was growing up my parents played a major role in promoting my outdoor activity by taking me camping or yelling at me so I wouldn't want to be in the house.

[jaguar2010]

Um...That's kind of the point. Giving these kids a better education gives them a better chance of getting a better career. :P

BTW: Most Walmarts have this thing called a Garden Center where plant an animal knowledge would be helpful. Oh and if McDonald's is going 2b your career then knowing about local vegetation and animals will help in building a franchise location.

[WelschVideo]

What is wrong with kids today? When I was 3 yrs old I was reading names of dinosaurs and catching all sorts of different animals.

[padeone]

Graviteh, don't be jealous...

[talanock]

Getting them outside won't help unless you let them go in the middle of a forest or something. There are tons of billboards, posters and other types of ads that they can see as soon as they step outside. There aren't animals in the middle of a city (other then the common pets/rodents) Of course they will know about logos, they seem them everyday rather then maybe once a year they see an exotic animal at the zoo.

[thechoiceisyours]

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[n8trsho]

Nice video. Well done.

Steve in PA