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This is a good article by Fred First from the Children and Nature Network.
"My brief return to the biology classroom in 2005 after a
17-year absence brought a shocking revelation: the outdoors was an alien and
unknown place to my students.
Out of 120 on field trips near campus along Virginia’s New
River that semester, only one student could call one of some 50 observed living
things by name: poison ivy. Everything else—birds and bushes, wildflowers and
vines, insects and fungi—were anonymous strangers.
That revelation disturbed me. What would become of this
place if future generations were so out of touch with the natural world?" - Read the full article by Fred First here.
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