Forest Kindergarten is STEAM by Nature
“We’re going to pour the water now!” yelled an excited voice from the forest. Suddenly, with that announcement, all the forest kindergarten children, no matter what they had been engaged in, rushed over to the hillside that had been repeatedly cut with channels and constructed with deliberate diversions. Within these channels, several children had carefully […]
How Neuroscience and Emotions Impact Learning
Over the past twenty years, tremendous progress has been made by neuroscientists in understanding how our brains work thanks to cutting-edge technology like Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG). The brain is a complex organ: it is made of 100 billion neurons that fire on average 200 times per second, thereby sending trillions […]