Last Child in the Woods

Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv is an inspirational curb. Richard Louv mainly dialog most children not attemptting enough exposure to nature and all the problems that be caused from it such as school (academically), behavior, health, horny feelings, anxiety and depression. He explains that children from the age of six to eleven rates of obesity has increased and two egress of ten American children be obese because kind of of going outside and funing they are sitting in the house watching TV or on the computer.In 1983 Howard Gardner came up with seven intelligences, and recently he added a new one naturalist intelligence. When this describes a person it means they are able to recognize plants, animals and legion(predicate) other parts of nature which everyone should be able to do. Not only are the characterizations of this additional intelligence just being able to recognize parts of nature, but the person has to re strain a love for, an interest for and care about nature and all its parts. Physical Education in schools is not how it was when I was in school.Children only get about 30 minutes and that usually contains them doing an organized sport they may not be interested in or and running from one fence to another. When Louv talks about children being outside in nature, which does not mean on the blacktop, he refers to a commonalty theatre of operations. Schools are also beginning to cut out recess, which all children need. Research says nature can be used as a theory for children with ADHD and can some(prenominal)times take the place of their medication, Ritalin.The much green children with ADHD and ADD are rough the break dance they are all together, especially in school. They are able to focus and concentrate more than, have a higher attention span, they are more creative, get a languish better with others, are able to deal with peer pressure, and lead have a better behavior. Ther e are m whatsoever teenagers who have never been outside of their urban city and have never been in a green area for a long period of time. Once they have that experience that will change their whole life and there way of supposeing.They will know and rede how beautiful and important nature is to them and others. Computers are beginning to take over schools and because of that music classes are being dropped and art classes are becoming less(prenominal) and less hands-on and have less to do with nature. What school districts and some educators fail to understand is nature helps with childrens cognitive learning. Many children are associating outside with fear. They are afraid to go outside and wander by themselves.Sometimes part of that fear comes from their parents trying to protect them and corpulent them about strangers, and about people getting wound little do they know that instead of helping parents are putting fear in their children. If a child is bored, one thing they ca n do is go outside. Children do not like going outside or being around nature often, but if you expose children to nature while they are still babies they will learn to find interest for it and the child will rarely complain about being bored. Nature builds self confidence, which a carry on of young children lack, it also makes them stronger.Nature is no where in the schools curriculum, but it is important for educators to add it in as many ways as they possibly can. The problem is some educators fail to realize how important nature is to children. When I begin teaching I plan to have some of my class outside in the green, sitting on the grass and or underneath a tree. When the whether permits we will have our reading and meditation time outside for sure. Our meditation time will be time for the children to get everything out of there system that is stressing them in any way.I will try my best to implement nature into my as many of my lessons as I can. The classroom will be full of plants and a couple of abject classroom pets, and it will be the students debt instrument to take care of them. That will help them to learn to love, respect, appreciate, care for and how to take care of nature. Even just having plants and animals inside the classroom will help the children with their familiar lives and during the day especially when the whether does not permit us to go outside and savour what nature has to offer.Children in environmental based programs tend to do better then those students in traditional programs. Taking the students on field trips that have to do with the lesson tends to be very effective. The children seem to take in more and enjoy it better then just sitting in a classroom. From the age of learning to walk and being able to play outside without my florists chrysanthemum to primary school my childhood was very similar to the baby-boomers in this book.I use to climb trees, make mud pies with my best friend, go in the woods just to play hide -and-seek, play in the rain fully clothed, etc. I remember when I was in middle school I would rush to get through with my homework so I could go outside and play with my friends in my neighborhood. We did not play in green areas as much as we contend on paved roads, but just being outside felt wonderful. When I was not allowed to go outside with my friends on weekdays and weekends, I remember I would cry because I loved being outside that much.We would ride our bikes and scooters or skate downtown to the boardwalk, play basketball, kickball and other kind of sports in the church, that most of us attended, parking lot that was near to our houses. It wasnt until I was in the eighth grade when going outside was no long interesting to me. I was more interested in playing computer games, games on my play station, watching TV or just talking on the phone to my friends. Similar to the book, around that time my mom was scared to let me go too far from the house, because she was afraid som ething might happen to me.I had to be in front of the house by the time the street lights came on. Just like what was happening to a couple of the children in the book, I think my mom trying to protect me by telling me dont go too far, because something might happen scared me more than anything else and that might be what made me enjoy being inside more. I remember when I was in about sixth or seventh grade, my family and I went on a skiing trip in northern Virginia. My step-dad, mom and I drove from South Carolina to Sterling, Virginia to meet my aunt, her husband and their two children. The next morning at about five oclock A.M. we began loading the pile for the ride to the ski touch on. I know on the ride to the resort the scenery was beautiful, but just like any other child would do I slept, listened to my CDs, and played with my cousin, instead of paying attention to nature as we rode by the mountains and more. Once we finally arrived after what seemed like a long drive I sta rted to feel myself getting excited, because unlike my aunt and her family I never went skiing. The next day we went to the slopes and I had the best time I think I ever had still to this day. I really got a chance to see how beautiful nature really is.I took ski lessons and would ski on the small slope over and over again until I was comfortable enough to accomplish the true slope. In order to get to the top of the slope you had to get on this ride that took you all the way to the top, which allowed people to see everything. That was a very beautiful site we looked down on the whole ski resort and the area around it, with the snow on the trees and Greenland. I turn over this trip and my trips to Hawaii and Barbados are what made me fall in love with nature. After see the beautiful scenery and the clear blue water in the islands,I began to love, cherish, care for, and become interested in nature more than I was prior to the vacations. This book is very important to science educati on, because science is the simplest subject to incorporate nature into. Educators can almost add the students being in contact with nature to any lesson on their curriculum pattern for their grade level. When most students reach high school science becomes boring and the subject they despise the most and I believe a phenomenal way to keep them involved and interested in science is by implementing nature in the lessons