Nature-Based STEM in the Early Years

Natural environments provide unparalleled contexts for authentic STEM learning, where children engage with real-world phenomena through observation, experimentation, and engineering challenges. This guide bridges the gap between nature pedagogy and STEM education, drawing from Sobel's place-based education research (2004), the Growing Up WILD framework, and longitudinal studies from Scandinavian forest kindergartens demonstrating measurable gains in scientific reasoning among outdoor learners.

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