Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Breathing New Life into Educating Outdoors ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. “Appareled in Celestial Light” 1
6. 1 Childhood and Nature Design Principles 12
7. PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
8. PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE 57
9. 2 Playing, Plotting, and Potatoes 61
10. 3 Taking the Classroom to the Forest 67
11. 4 Applying the Design Principles in an Urban Early Childhood Center 82
12. 5 Being Hopeful in Spite of It All 94
13. 6 Forts, Land Trusts, and Conservation Behavior 105
14. 7 Island Play 113
15. 8 Valley Quest 129
16. 9 Look, Don’t Touch 138
17. 10 Swimming Upstream against the Current 155
18. 11 Global Climate Change Meets Ecophobia 167
19. 12 Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2005 179
20. 13 Place-based Education in Guilford, Vermont, 2020 188
21. 14 Finding the Good in the Pandemic 200
22. References 205
23. Index 217