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Inspiring Healthy Child through Green Ribbon Schools in Houston

Explore the importance of reconnecting children with nature through Green Ribbon Schools initiative, promoting wellness, enhancing learning, and fostering a love for the environment. Join the movement to create healthier, happier, and smarter kids!

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Inspiring Healthy Child through Green Ribbon Schools in Houston

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  1. Healthy World Healthy Child and Green Ribbon Schools Houston October 8, 2012 GREEN RIBBON SCHOOLS Steve Amos, Executive Director

  2. Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren't … natural environment and wild animals have all but disappeared … suggests this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world. …

  3. Source: Children at Risk

  4. Nature Deficit Disorder • BOUT CATALYST FOR GREEN RIBBON SCHOOLS

  5. Before the What…Let’s talk about WHY Green Ribbon Schools WHY GREEN RIBBON SCHOOLS? ... stewards of resources... Reduce obesity... ... improve test scores... ... trim budgets!

  6. What is GRS?

  7. Green Ribbon Schools – Children in Nature Coalition GRS - PERMISSION BASED – PURPOSEFUL INTERACTIONS www.greenribbonschools.org

  8. Great Published Activities GREAT PUBLISHED ACTIVITIES

  9. Student Voice JOY OF DISCOVERY 4th Grade Fishing Trip Zelma Hutsell Elementary - Katy, TX http://greenribbonschools.org/activity-detail.php?id=488

  10. It’s About the Kids – Wellness - Future • 0 HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, SMARTER

  11. Steve Amos Steve@4cw3.org 512-970-7443 www.greenribbonschools.org Healthier, Happier, Smarter

  12. Extend the Walls PARTNER TO IMPACT CHANGE “As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.” President Abraham Lincoln

  13. “Kids don’t think about their health” “Not cool … not discussed …” District Teacher of the Year and a Culinary Arts Teacher Extend Healthivores Within Fabric of the School Establish a Culture of Wellness Where it is Cool to Think and Act ‘Cause YOU are Worth It

  14. KNOW ENOUGH TO ACT • "Engaging children in • nature exploration and play  • helps prevent obesity and related diseases, nurtures physical fitness, • enhances overall development and well being, and • adds fundamental dimensions • to learning science concepts • not available • in the confines of classrooms.” • Dr. Joe Frost, the Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Texas Children in Nature Coalition member

  15.  "Children ...may spend their childhoods with little or no opportunity to play in clean dirt, swim in clear, running streams, hear and see animals in their natural habitats, feel the sensations of walking through meadows and woodlands on dewy mornings, climb trees, and explore wild places.   These are the experiences that bond children to the natural world, sharpen their senses, inspire a sense of beauty, build emerging concepts of biology, geology, physics, and language. And they are critical brain building experiences for complementing the physical , social, and cognitive skills developed in recess, free playground play, and compact nature areas in backyards, schoolyards, and neighborhood parks." Dr. Joe Frost, the Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Texas Children in Nature Coalition member

  16. Next Steps- Using the GRS website HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, SMARTER, KIDS • Sign up on GRS site – no charge • Start a project relating to YOUR project • Include your organization name in the “key words, tags” • when the teacher sets up a project • Students publish photos and videos • Tip: Have teacher include you as moderator to help review • work and approve publishing • Publish project results and show progress over time • Tip: check out the intro videos on home page and help • Have fun  • www.greenribbonschools.org

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