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Asphalt to Ecosystems Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation

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ISBN-10: 0976605481

ISBN-13: 9780976605485

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sharon Gamson Danks, Cam Collyer

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Children today experience most of their academic training indoors and spend their outdoor playtime on paved surfaces with chain-link fences. This comprehensively illustrated guide shows proven methods for converting barren school grounds into learning and play spaces that are beautiful, vibrant, and alive. Case studies from North America, Scandinavia, and Great Britain demonstrate natural outdoor teaching environments that support hands-on learning in science, math, language, and art, in ways that nurture healthy imagination and socialization. With this book, schools, teachers, parents, and students will be able to envision exciting ecological learning environments and learn how to make…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New Village Press
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.40" wide x 9.70" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Environmental consultant focusing on ecological design, edible landscapes; children's play environments, and public participation in planning. Danks has documented over 150 green schoolyards, been adviser for 15 schoolyard transformation plans, writes for Landscape Architecture Magazine, co-author of the Green Schoolyard Resource Directory, co-designer of national ecological schoolyard exhibit on urban sustainability at US Botanic Garden, Washington DC.