ABSTRACT
Activity Time facilitates a heterogeneous mix of children and values a broad range of intelligences. Activity Time is when children explore their interests, learn how to make a choice, work out their understanding of the world, and extend the concepts we study together. Many parents report on their children’s ongoing relationship with the natural world. Janet, the parent of a current fifth-grade student, stops by to tell that a pileated woodpecker landed in her backyard. Certainly there are other venues for connection to nature—scouting programs, family farms, gardens or camping trips, a grandparent, neighbor, or other intimate adult—but these will not be available to every child.
