Promoting Unstructured Free Play in Your Community: A Resource Manual
- Organization: Community Health and Built Environment Project Team
- Date Published: January 1, 2011
This manual has been designed to be used as a tool to implement an unstructured free play program in your community. In this manual you will find an introduction to unstructured free play, steps to establish an unstructured free play program in your community, and a wide variety of games and activities.
The objective of an unstructured free play program in your community would be to familiarize children and youth with enjoyable, unstructured free play games and activities. The program is designed for children and youth of all sociodemographic backgrounds to have the opportunity to play, engage in physical activity, and have fun with one another regardless of who has the best or most expensive equipment.
The premise is that once children and youth are introduced to fun, unstructured free play games and activities, they will be eager to initiate these activities during their own free time. It is anticipated that this will lead to an increase in overall activity levels, which will improve the physical health of young people and ultimately reduce the incidence of overweight and obesity.
Recreation Your Way: A Resource Guide Designed to Help Facilitate Inclusive Recreation in Your Community
- Author(s): Jake Reid
- Organization: Recreation New Brunswick (http://www.recreationnb.ca/)
- Date Published: January 1, 2009
Recreation Your Way is a program that has been designed and delivered by the Inclusive Recreation Committee of Recreation New Brunswick/Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability NB. It is a one-day event for people with disabilities, their friends and families, to participate in various recreation, sports and leisure activities. During the event, activities on various inclusive recreation activities, some with specialized equipment, are offered. These sessions allow registrants with disabilities, and their friends and family, to try new activities and/or find new ways to participate in favourite activities from the past. This resource guide is meant as an educational tool to help plan, promote and deliver a Recreation Your Way event in communities.
Reporting on the Pan Canadian Survey RE: Children and Nature
- Author(s): Canadian Parks and Recreation Association
- Organization: Canadian Parks and Recreation Association
- Date Published: July 1, 2012
This work, lead by the ARPA (Alberta Recreation and Parks Association), came to the attention of Mountain Equipment Co-Op (MEC), who is also a partners in the BC initiative. Discussions resulted in a grant from MEC to the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA), an alliance of provincial/territorial recreation and Parks Associations, to conduct a Pan Canadian survey and identify opportunities for future action. ARPA was subsequently asked to lead the Pan Canadian assessment. The Pan Canadian survey was prepared using Survey Gizmo web survey technology. It was translated into French, and both versions were posted on the web in February 2010. By mid-March 169 surveys had been completed, all using the English language version. The results of the survey to that point were prepared into a presentation for a CPRA National Strategies Workshop held in conjunction with the annual conference of Parks and Recreation Ontario (PRO) in early April 2010. At that workshop, there were 47 participants – see Appendix 1 for National Strategy Workshop materials. After the PRO conference, the survey was reposted on the web, and between April and June a further 172 surveys were received (three using the French version). The combined survey results (341 total respondents) are summarized in this report.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.arpaonline.ca/Children-Nature-Survey-Report.pdf
Repositioning Children’s Developmental Needs in Space Planning: A Review of Connection to Nature
- Author(s): Mustapa, Nor Diyana, Maliki, Nor Zarifah, and Hamzah, Aswati.
- Organization: Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. 170: 330-339. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.043
- Date Published: May 1, 2015
Play and experience in the nature contributes to children’s cognitive, physical and social development, restores positive emotion, develops sense of place, empathy and care for nature, and associates positively with environmental attitude and behaviour. This paper presents a review on benefits of nature on children’s developmental needs. The review also highlights children’s experiences in nature and effects of disconnection from the nature. In summary, it is crucial to understand children’s view towards nature and environment in creating spaces that reconnect them with nature. Designing for children today is indeed designing for the future, as well.
Research Synthesis: Parks, Playgrounds and Active Living.
- Date Published: February 4, 2010
“This synthesis summarizes the growing body of evidence concerning the role of parks in shaping active lifestyles across a variety of study populations, including children, seniors, lower-income families, specific
racial and ethnic groups and other populations at high risk of being inactive. The need to further substantiate these findings and to extend park, playground and active living research into other topical areas using more sophisticated research designs also is discussed.”
http://activelivingresearch.org/files/Synthesis_Mowen_Feb2010_0.pdf
Resources for Active Living
- Organization: Active Living Research (http://www.activelivingresearch.org/)
- Date Published: January 1, 2012
Active Living Research provides credible and action-oriented research results that address the root causes of childhood obesity and physical inactivity. With a focus on communities, active transportation, schools and parks and recreation, the program informs the work of advocates, practitioners and policy-makers. Our resources support strategies that can make the biggest impact on reversing the childhood obesity epidemic and promoting active living.
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Handbook for Administrators and Instructors in British Columbia
- Author(s): Center for Curriculum Transfer and Technology
- Organization: Center for Curriculum Transfer and Technology
- Date Published: January 1, 2013
This handbook is designed for use by managers and instructors of outdoor programs in British Columbia’s post-secondary institutions (mainly colleges and universities). Its purpose is to provide these staff with a risk management resource that will help them conduct operations responsibly and prevent accidents and injuries during field trips into wilderness and backcountry terrain. The typical post-secondary outdoor programs include those in outdoor recreation, physical education, natural history, and adventure tourism.
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