CHILD IN NATURE
CHILD IN NATURE By: Natural Learning Initiative The Child In Nature (2006, 16 min.) features Robin Moore discussing NLI’s approach to the Montessori philosophy of outdoor design and the spatial transition between indoors and outdoors. Also featured are Montessori...
This Is Me : Article 31 and a Child’s Right to Play
This Is Me : Article 31 and a Child’s Right to Play By: International Play Association (IPA World) On February 1st 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expanded the world’s understanding of the child’s right to play by adopting a General Comment on...
Partners for Environmental Justice — Building Community Around Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetlands
Partners for Environmental Justice — Building Community Around Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetlands By: Partners for Environmental Justice North Carolina Walnut Creek, 2000, is a grassroots project designed to extend to Southeast Raleigh – a predominately African...
What nature teaches children | Nilda Cosco | TEDxRaleigh
What nature teaches children | Nilda Cosco | TEDxRaleigh By: TEDx Talks Watch this talk if you are interested in the well-being of young children. Children spend most of their waking hours in child care every day where they can play outdoors and learn from nature....
Wolfpack Wellness Research Web Series: “Preventing Obesity by Design”
Wolfpack Wellness Research Web Series: “Preventing Obesity by Design” By: Wolfpack Wellness In November of 2023, NLI collaborated with the NC State University Department of Horticultural Science to deploy nature-based design interventions in two North...
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The NLI Website’s New Look
NLI The NLI Website’s New Look You may have noticed some changes to the NLI website… We are proud to unveil a new, modern style designed to provide clear and legible content on all screen sizes, including phones! The new style has been developed with universal web...
Institutes & Symposia
Early childhood outdoor play and learning resources.
NLI Newsletter – January / February 2024
Play Chastain
Design programming for new playground.
Exploring Cool Season Plant Growth
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course
Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS) Course
Childcare Outdoor Learning Environments Quality Tool (COLEQT) Course
Play Chastain
Project NLI Play Chastain Play Chastain was part of the 20-year Master Plan for Atlanta’s Chastain Park. As a member of the design team, with Harrison Design Associates and the Atlanta Taskforce on Play (now Play Atlanta), NLI led the design programming effort to...
NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin
NLI NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin Presented to NLI by Agency Director, Dr. Simmer Recognizes partners addressing the health and safety of South Carolina residents, improving the environment in which we live, and working for...
NC Crunch
NLI NC Crunch NC Crunch this Fall celebrated NC Farm to School and Early Care and Education Month by hosting events at more than a dozen Wake County Childcare including Bambino’s Playschool and A Safe Place Child Enrichment Center, with programs that support healthy...
Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch
Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch Grow Outdoors SC, launched at the MEGA Child Development Center, Gilbert, SC (12-11-23), is a unique partnership of two SC state agencies (Social Services – DSS, and Health & Environmental Control – DHEC), three...
Happy Holidays 2023
Happy Holidays from the Natural Learning Initiative! Join us as we celebrate nature play and learning with our holiday postcard.
Supporting Naturalized Outdoor Play and Learning Environments in North Carolina Child Care Facilities
Supporting Naturalized Outdoor Play and Learning Environments in North Carolina Child Care Facilities During the Fall of 2023, NLI collaborated with Horticultural Science, NC State, to implement nature-based design interventions in two North Carolina child-care...
NLI Newsletter – November / December 2023
Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch
Unique partnership for outdoor learning.
NLI collaborates with NC State Horticultural Science Design-Build
Eating and Learning with Apples
NLI Holiday Card
OLE at Glencoe Mill Village
Project NLI OLE at Glencoe Mill Village The Outdoor Learning Environment in Glencoe Mill Village Historic District, Burlington, NC, was initiated by the Alamance County Partnership for Children in 2012 as an innovative, community-based, nature play and learning area...
The Catawba Nation iswa Early Learning Center
Project NLI The Catawba Nation iswa Early Learning Center The Catawba Nation, iswa Early Learning Center is working with NLI to naturalize their outdoor play and learning environment and make it more expressive of the iswa culture (iswa means “river...
North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education
North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education In 2011, Creating a Supportive Network was successfully implemented in North Carolina as a collaborative project of the North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education (NC-DCDEE) and the Natural...
NLI Newsletter – October 2023
The Catawba Nation, iswa Early Learning Center
Naturalizing outdoor play and learning.
Examining Bugs and Plant Growth
NC-DCDEE and NLI Collaboration!
OLE at Glencoe Mill Village
Children’s Rights to a Healthy Future
Children’s Rights to a Healthy Future Children’s right to a healthy future made historic progress in August 2023 when a group of Montana youth won a case re-affirming this right (Held vs. State of Montana), as covered by a 1972 amendment to the Montana state...
NLI’s Community of Interest
NLI NLI’s Community of Interest Thank you for taking part in NLI’s “community of interest” (COI) by subscribing to the Natural Learning Initiative Newsletter and using NLI resources! Subscribers like you are a diverse group based in 173 countries (see Google...
Texas Tech Colleague Wins 2023 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Research
NLI Texas Tech Colleague Wins 2023 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Research NLI Colleague Nazia Afrin Trina, MLA Student at Texas Tech University, was the recipient of the Award of Excellence in the Research Category for her work on “The Play Value of Plants.”...
NLI Newsletter – September 2023
Children’s Rights to A Healthy Future
Montana youth win case re-affirming rights.
NLI Community of Interest
Designing Early Childhood Outdoor Environments Certificate Course
NLI Newsletter – January 2023
Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve
The regenerative power of nature continues to inspire NLI’s passion for restoring biodiversity.
Ross Park Nature Play and Exploration Trail
NLI’s Early Childhood Professional Development Program is on a roll!
Need and Interest in Nature Prescriptions
NLI Newsletter – August 2023
2023 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career and Organization Awards
Awarded to Robin Moore and the Natural Learning Initiative (NLI).
NLI Shorts! Weeding, Planting, & Watering
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course
Designing Early Childhood Outdoor Environments Certificate Course
EDRA Awards 2023
NLI EDRA Awards 2023 The 2023 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career and Organization Awards go to Robin Moore and the Natural Learning Initiative (NLI, co-founded by Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco, PhD, in 2000), College of Design, NC State University....
NLI Newsletter – July 2023
NLI Shorts! Broccoli–Trees You Can Eat!
Part of a series of 2-3-min YouTube videos on children’s outdoor play.
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course
Washington Post Article: The future is a playground
Washington Terrace
Design interventions at Washington Terrace (WT)
NLI Design interventions at Washington Terrace (WT) Design interventions at Washington Terrace (WT), a 23-acre, rebuilt neighborhood in East Raleigh’s historic African American community, aimed at creating an active, healthy neighborhood, began in 2016 when NLI...
The future is a playground – Washington Post Article
NLI The future is a playground – Washington Post Article NLI’s Robin Moore was recently cited in a Washington Post article on the future of playgrounds. The article highlights several play spaces Moore was involved with including The Nature Playscape at the...
NLI Newsletter – June 2023
NLI Shorts! Examining & Sprouting Seeds
Part of a 2-3-min YouTube series on children’s outdoor play.
Nemours Children’s Health Convening 2023
Kids Together Playground
Schott Nature PlayScape
Nemours Children’s Health Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program Convening 2023
NLI Nemours Children’s Health Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program Convening 2023 NLI attended a virtual convening hosted from June 6-7 by the Nemours Children’s Health National Office of Policy and Prevention. This event brought together...
The Nature PlayScape at Cincinnati Nature Center
Project NLI The Nature PlayScape at Cincinnati Nature Center The Schott Nature PlayScape resulted from a NLI professional development course for regional landscape architects on designing for childhood and nature, delivered through collaboration with the Niehoff Urban...
Kids Together Playground
Project NLI Kids Together Playground Kids Together Playground (KTP), designed by Robin Moore with Little and Little Landscape Architects, opened coincident with NLI in 2000. The Town of Cary Parks Commission envisioned a family playscape based on universal and...
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Texas Tech Colleague Wins Poster Competition
NLI Texas Tech Colleague Wins Poster Competition Nazia Afrin Trina wins first place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition organized by the Texas Tech University Obesity Research Institute. Nazia Afrin Trina, an international student at Texas Tech...
NLI Newsletter – May 2023
The Importance of Hands-on Gardening
Results show preschool gardening increases activity, reduces sedentary time.
Acknowledging Ancestral Lands Statement Released
Introducing the Green Desk Tabbing System
Texas Tech Colleague Wins Poster Competition
