Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies With Young Children (Early Childhood Education (Teacher's College Pr))

Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies With Young Children (Early Childhood Education (Teacher's College Pr)) Review

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How do children make sense of their world? This engaging book adds keen insight into why outdoor play is a significant yet frequently overlooked aspect of young children’s development. Analyzing play within a framework of "initiation, negotiation, and enactment," Jane Perry not only shows how teachers can support self-directed pretend play, but also connects and illustrates theories of play and children’s culture.

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• Master Players: Learning from Children at Play (Early Childhood Education (Teacher's College Pr))

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Sep 01, 2011 07:40:05

Dakotas Travel and Recreation Directory 2012 (Travel and Recreation Directories)

Dakotas Travel and Recreation Directory 2012 (Travel and Recreation Directories) Review

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Our Dakotas Travel & Recreation Directory is packed with relevant area travel information, places to see, things to do, outdoor recreation, fun for the kids, hotels, interesting area facts and much more in North and South Dakota! Get the most out of your valuable vacation time and Let Us Be Your Guide! Download this condensed Kindle edition of the directory to request a print full version by mail or view the pdf full version in color. We print travel directories for many other states across the US.

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Aug 31, 2011 06:41:09

The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors

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In The Fish’s Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler’s environment all around him—in New York’s Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida Keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remain defiantly unruined. Frazier’s simple love of the sport lifts him to a straight-ahead angling description that’s among the best contemporary writing on the subject. The Fish’s Eye brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide.

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Aug 30, 2011 06:20:35

The Colorado Year Round Outdoor Guide (Cmc Classics)

The Colorado Year Round Outdoor Guide (Cmc Classics) Review

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Year-round fun is the idea here with 100 described outings for any level of hiker, snowshoer, and skier.

· Contains many of the best outings in the state from the Colorado Mountain Club, the hiking and climbing experts in the Rockies for nearly a century.
· Full-color guidebook
· One of the first two titles in a new series from the Colorado Mountain Club: CMC's Classics

Colorado's spectacular mountains are known for year-round backcountry adventure. Enthusiasts lace on their hiking boots for summer trails and switch to snowshoes or cross-country skis when the snow flies. There's a pair of outings for every week of the year with detailed access and route descriptions, must-have color maps and elevation profiles, equipment checklists, safety tips and a full-featured index. Dozens of informative side-bars, on everything from history and nature to tips on photography and "fun facts," add to an enjoyable outing experience.

Color-coded symbols make it quick and easy to find the outing that's right for you, including identification of the type of outing and the difficulty level. There are even special hikes for wildlife viewing, for families or persons with disabilities, or for people with dogs.

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Conditioning for Outdoor Fitness: A Comprehensive Training Guide

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Are you getting the most out of your workout? Learn key aerobic and strength training concepts to design and improve your exercise program. Incorporate dynamic, new functional strength and balance exercises into your workout. These exercises will help you gain strength, tone, balance and agility. They will also help you to improve your performance and decrease risks of injuries in any outdoor activity.

This book is written by a team of physicians, athletic and fitness trainers and physical therapists and is one of the most comprehensive and practical books on exercise available. Initially it covers the basics of aerobic and strength training along with stretching, warm-up, nutrition, movement awareness, training outdoors and training strategies. The second section covers the muscles in a regional fashion, teaching how they work, what imbalances develop and how one region relates to other regions. Conventional exercises are shown along with new functional exercises which challenge your muscles the way they are used in real life and in outdoor activities. The third section gives exercise training programs for many outdoor activities including: skiing(alpine, telemark, skate and cross-country), snowboarding, running, cycling, hiking, climbing, windsurfing, kayaking and canoeing.

Safety of exercise, injury prevention, proper movement patterns and improving function are emphasized.

Whether you simply want to learn more about exercise, improve your performance in activities or put some diversity and fun into your workouts this book is for you. The exercises in the abdominal chapter alone are worth the price of the book.

If you are a health care provider, this book is an invaluable tool to give you a virtual encyclopedia of exercises that you can assign to help people meet their various exercise goals.

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Aug 26, 2011 16:49:56

Outdoor Play in the Early Years: Management and Innovation

Outdoor Play in the Early Years: Management and Innovation Review

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This book offers a thorough investigation of the outdoor area and outdoor play in any early years setting. It stimulates and challenges practitioners to develop a truly effective teaching and learning environment by providing detailed guidance and discussion on organizing, managing and resourcing this environment. It is written for all practitioners working in Early Years settings, those taking relevant initial teacher education and professional development courses as well those pursuing vocational and diploma courses. Governing bodies and Headteachers would find this a useful text, especially as they introduce and develop their outdoor areas.

This second edition includes advice on how to provide outdoor play in infant settings and offers examples from teachers working in this field. Links are made between the Foundation Stage principles for early years education and the guiding principles for outdoor play and provision. The author discusses the structure of the day and how to include literacy and numeracy. Personal, social and emotional development, movement and thinking, bikes, fixed equipment and play scenarios are all discussed in detail. Further additions include a resource and equipment list, examples of assessment, running records, planning and a suggested outdoor area layout.

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Aug 25, 2011 15:46:07

The Garden Railway Manual: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Operating an Outdoor Model Railway

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A practical overview of the garden railway covering both the traditional raised system and the ground-level type. Chapters include: gauges and scales for the garden, surveying and setting out, electricity in the garden, planning the layout, civil engineering, track laying and live steam operation. Fully illustrated with photographs and specially produced diagrams. Filled with clear and precise, step-by-step instructions on how to complete the various modelling and construction processes.

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Aug 24, 2011 00:49:36

Outdoor Recreation in Southern New Hampshire: From Hiking Trails to Parks and Playgrounds

Outdoor Recreation in Southern New Hampshire: From Hiking Trails to Parks and Playgrounds Review

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NH Recreational Guide Book: From Hiking Trails to Parks and Playgrounds. Find Hiking areas, Fishing spots and locate all the beaches. Lists a variety of activities from Baseball fields, Beaches, Biking, Fishing, Hiking, Skateboard Parks, Parks and Playgrounds and Natural Areas.

This book is a great source for both recreational professionals and the general public. There is no other source of complete recreation areas, including playgrounds, in the state.

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Aug 22, 2011 10:06:35

Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations

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With contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen

Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations includes essays on Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Paul Robeson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. The essayists in this volume write about twentieth-century athletes whose careers were affected by racism and whose post-career reputations have improved as society's understanding of race changed. Contributors attempt to clarify the stories of these sports stars and their places as twentieth-century icons by analyzing the various myths that surround them.

When media, fans, sports leagues, and the athletes themselves commemorate sports legends, shifts in popular perceptions often serve to obscure an athlete's role in history. Such revisions can lack coherence and trivialize the efforts of some legendary competitors and those associated with them. Adding racial tensions to this process further complicates the task of preserving the valuable achievements of key players.

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Aug 20, 2011 18:26:21

Parks and People: Managing Outdoor Recreation at Acadia National Park

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• ISBN13: 9781584657910
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Parks and People describes fifteen years of research at Maine's Acadia National Park, conducted by Robert E. Manning, his colleagues, and students. The book is organized into three parts. Part I addresses indicators and standards of quality for park resources and the visitor experience. Part II describes efforts to monitor indicator variables. Part III outlines and assesses management actions designed to maintain standards of quality. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of this program of natural and social science research, including a series of principles for outdoor recreation management at Acadia and other parks.

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