Defenders of Wildlife

Can Digital Kids Click With Nature, Wildlife?

October 21, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Aug. 25, 2016 Update Celebrate 100 Years of our National Parks with FREE admission today! In honor of this centennial milestone, a quick roundup of children's media designed specifically to get kids OUTSIDE to play outdoors in nature and learn eco-literacy lessons for life. Which media would you add that boosts kids knowledge and curiosity about the environment, wildlife … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: Children and Nature, compassion for animals, Defenders of Wildlife, digital kids, digital technology and outdoor play, eco literacy, Environmental Education, environmental stewards, habitat loss, nature apps, nature deficit, NCLI, No-Child-Left-Inside, NWF, play outdoors, tech and nature, TiltWorld, wildlife, wildlife encroachment, World Wildlife Fund

NCLI Act: Nature Crusaders Earn Environmental Education A Win!

September 19, 2008 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Woohoo! We did it! Cue the wolf howl, folks! Eco-literacy just won Congressional approval as the NCLI Act passed with bipartisan support for environmental education in classrooms by a vote of 293 to 109 yesterday! We’re ‘not out of the woods’ yet, but at least we’ll still have woods to consider if we combat 'nature deficit disorder' and teach kids … [Read more...]

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