Videos and multimedia

These multimedia resources can be used as excellent teaching tools, each video is from a different country/region to offer a variety of approaches and practices that exhibit the significance of nature exploration in play for young children.

Available online

Exploring Green Education - Abbottsford, Melbourne Australia (video 3:14)
Visions Episode 96, March 2011
At the kindergarten of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, teachers and students explore the idea of a sustainable world, and educators are inspired by an awareness that education for sustainability couldn't occur at a more crucial time of life.

Evironmental education at the Cloud Forest School - Costa Rica (video 7:32)
Youtube, October 2008
Within the context of a thorough, well-rounded, bilingual education, the school focuses on environmental issues in a hands-on environment.

Neroche Forest School - Blackdown Hills, UK (video 6:38)
YouTube, June, 2009
Forest School introducs young people to a new learning style in the forest helping to maximise the emotional, social and developmental benefits of education. Practitioners use learning and teaching strategies which raise self-esteem, develop confidence, independence, and language and communication skills in a natural environment.

In focus: Forest kindergarten - Central Scotland (video 5:42)
South Lanarkshire TV & Forestry Commission Scotland, August 2010
More information about Forestry Commission Scotland's forest kindergarten project

Outdoor Preschool - Norway (video 21:37)
Journeyman Pictures, YouTube July, 2009
Outdoor nurseries are trying to counteract concerns that childhood has become overprotected and believe external education makes children more creative and independent

Forest kindergarten - Plngtung Taiwan (video)

Places for play: The exhibition (photo gallery)
Free Play Network, 2005

Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments (photo & information gallery)
Proflie 1
Profile 2
Profile 3
Profile 4
See also Materials available online for Vison and Values pdf

Playscapes: A blog about playground design (photo blog)

Multimedia not available online

Can you feel a colour? (video)
Jensen, C. European Commission, 1996. Contact us for details

Child care by design (video)
Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 1995. Order from CRRU