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Friday, March 23 • 8:00am - 9:15am
The Natural World: Where Real Discovery Begins

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Research substantiates that connections to the natural world enhances cognitive abilities and has far-reaching social, emotional, and health benefits. This presentation will energize your teaching and advance ways to reconnect children to the transformative power of nature. Ideas will be presented that encourage wonder, curiosity, and care of the natural environment, along with promoting nature discovery as a central element in the life of your community. Highlights will include a range of creative activities and integrated curriculum experiences to revitalize children’s relationship to the natural world.
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Geoffrey Bishop

Executive Director, Nature's Classroom Montessori
Geoffrey Bishop hails from the bush in North West NSW, Australia. After his childhood spent on the sheep station he went to an agricultural boarding school for five years then to University in both Sydney and Melbourne where he Studied Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. For... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 8:00am - 9:15am MDT
Windows Tower Building Second Level
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