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GUW – Reconnecting Children with Nature
March 9 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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
Training is provided at-a-distance. Participants are required to complete pre-workshop activities online and attend the three-hour live workshop via Zoom.
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Registration deadline is February 23.
Cost: $15
Location: via Zoom.
Registration Process:
- Child care providers: Go to the Iowa Child Care Providers Training Registry and use the search term “reconnecting” to find this training and sign up.
- Pay online by February 23 to complete enrollment: https://go.iastate.edu/IKT9LW
CDA Content Area 2—Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual