Free to Explore: Nature Play for Infants
Time outdoors stimulates all the senses and supports physical development and overall health and wellbeing of infants. Often, educators and parents are afraid to let infants spend too much time outside free to explore. In this course, participants will dive into the many benefits of spending time outdoors with infants and strategies that support safe infant exploration in nature.
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What's included?
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Video Presentation
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Course Activities
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Downloadable Resource
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Certificate of Completion
Learning Objectives
- Explain the benefits of infants spending time in outdoor environments for overall health and wellness including sensory and brain development.
- Recognize and overcome typical barriers to allowing infants time outdoors
- Plan and set up outdoor spaces for infants
Learn at Your Pace
This course provides 2 hours of professional development for early childhood educators.
Participants are required to watch the training videos and complete the activities. Participants must receive a score of 80% or higher to receive credit for this course.
Course certificates are emailed upon successful completion.
Participants are required to watch the training videos and complete the activities. Participants must receive a score of 80% or higher to receive credit for this course.
Course certificates are emailed upon successful completion.
Meet the instructor
Audrey Rowland
Audrey Rowland has over 20 years of experience as an early childhood professional. Drawing from her expertise as a teacher and administrator, Audrey creates resources and provides professional development for early educators, administrators, parents, and policy-makers. She founded Green Space Learning, providing early childhood professional development for educators and creating play-based indoor and outdoor learning environments for early childhood programs. An engaging speaker and trainer, Audrey translates information into application. Audrey earned a MS from the University of North Texas in Child Development and Family Studies and a MBA from Texas Woman’s University. She is a Master Trainer with the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System (#1743).
Patrick Jones - Course author
