Summer Certificate Courses

Gertrude Cox Award Recipients

DELTA congratulates Research Associate Professor Nilda Cosco, Ph.D.’s Landscape Architecture Environment and Behavior (LAR E&B) team and Teaching Assistant Professor Jason King, Ph.D., as recipients of the 2018 ...

LOCAL FOODS: Childcare Center Production Gardens

Access this 8-part how-to series on gardening and cooking in childcare centers.

Updates

Monsur, Cosco, and Moore awarded US Play Coalition Research Seed Grant

April 26, 2018

The US Play Coalition awarded their 2018 Research Seed Grant to the Natural Learning Initiative's Muntazar Monsur, Ph.D., Nilda Cosco, Ph.D., and Robin Moore!

https://usplaycoalition.org/2018-grant-winners-announced

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"Caring Spaces, Learning Places" 2nd edition is out

January 22, 2018

Second edition of Jim Greenman’s classic, Caring Spaces, Learning Places, is out. Edited by Mike Lindstrom, Exchange Press.

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Events

Early Childhood Outdoor Environments Online Certificate Courses

June 4, 2018 - August 26, 2018

Registration is now open!

Creating environments for healthy human development and a healthy biosphere for generations to come.

Increasing numbers of children are losing contact with the natural world. The purpose of the Natural Learning Initiative is to promote the importance of the natural environment in the daily experience of all children, through environmental design, action research, education, and dissemination of information.

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Green Desk!

The Green Desk is a resource for all things related to naturalized childrens environments.
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What Nature Teaches Children

For TEDxRaleigh 2016 Dr. Nilda Cosco talks about the opportunities the childcare setting offers to provide children with the many benefits of a daily connection with nature.