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GUW – Reconnecting Children with Nature
This workshop leads you out the door and provides hands on activities and resource materials to help you lead your own nature explorations. Growing Up WILD activities use age appropriate practices and concepts to build on children’s sense of wonder and invites them to explore nature and the world around them. Specially written for children 3-7, activities include sections to address many learning areas: math, science, language, literacy, health living, play, and creativity.
Target Audience: Open to all Early Childhood Educators working with children age 3-7
Registration deadline is March 29, 2025
Cost: Free
Sponsors for this training are Washington County ISU Extension and Outreach and Child Care Resource and Referral of Southeast Iowa.
Location: Conservation Education Center, Ainsworth
Contact for more information: Hailey Walker, hburgher@iastate.edu
CDA Content Area 2—Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development
Participants are encouraged to dress for the weather. hands-on learning experiences will place indoors and outdoors.