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• Get 'em outside (YouTube)
  This 5 min video encourages us to increase environmental education opportunities at our schools and celebrates environmental education's impacts on children's learning, health and leadership.


• House Approves No Child Left Inside Act - Children & Nature Network (C&NN)
  The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to expand and improve the opportunities for children and adolescents to learn about and experience the natural world.


• Ecological leadership survey
  This Australian online survey project investigates the role of outdoor education in the development of transformational leadership qualities and positive attitudes towards the environment.


• 'Cotton wool kids' to get adventure training
  Every teenager in Scotland will be given an annual "outdoor week" under a new plan to tackle the country's growing "cotton wool kid" culture.


• Outdoor education - Powerset
  This Powerset search of "outdoor education" features related content from Wikipedia.


• Labyrinth to teach students to chart their own paths
  Trafaglar Middle School is turning to an ancient spiritual device to serve as a quiet retreat for students and teachers harried by the fast pace of life. This ancient device is also an effective learning tool.


• Children & Nature Network (C&NN)
  The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature.


• Into the wild with adventure education
  In his wonderfully cluttered office in Downtown Boise, D. Forrest Melton explained why wilderness exploration and the existential dilemma go hand in hand.


• U.S. bill proposes funding for outdoor education
  Environmental education efforts could expand in classrooms across the nation as a result of the No Child Left Inside bill.


• Active Australians outdoors: Discussion paper for public comment
  An attempt to summarise and analyse the most recent grassroots industry intelligence about existing and emerging issues within the outdoor adventure industry in Australia.

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