Comments on: Good News in Environmental Education http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/07/good-news-in-environmental-education/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Fri, 18 May 2012 21:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: April http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/07/good-news-in-environmental-education/comment-page-1/#comment-93 April Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:28:48 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=106#comment-93 What a fun-sounding project! Someone in your municipal government had a great idea. I hope a lot of people are taking the opportunity to discover more local parks than they ever knew existed. Sounds like a fine idea for other cities to try also. What a fun-sounding project! Someone in your municipal government had a great idea. I hope a lot of people are taking the opportunity to discover more local parks than they ever knew existed. Sounds like a fine idea for other cities to try also.

]]> By: Jim Z. http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/07/good-news-in-environmental-education/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Jim Z. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:06:49 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=106#comment-92 Our local city parks and rec. department offerred a new summer program to anyone who would "walk" at least 40 of the city's parks (it is a city of around 140,000) between June 1 and July 31. It was a way of getting people around town to see parks they never knew existed, and to provide an incentive to be outdoors. The city gave out small booklets to fill in (date walked, etc.) with the address of ea. park and a map. Each page has a question to identify some unique feature of each park so that people had to actually go there to answer the question, e.g., how many swings are there, or some detail about a park sculpture, or what public facility is on the NE side of the park - a fire station, etc. We've been taking our grandkids around each morning to visit anywhere from 1 to 3 parks at a time. At the end you get a T-shirt and attend a free picnic to celebrate the achievement. Been in our town for 28 years and never knew that many of these parks existed, or ever visited them. Our local city parks and rec. department offerred a new summer program to anyone who would “walk” at least 40 of the city’s parks (it is a city of around 140,000) between June 1 and July 31. It was a way of getting people around town to see parks they never knew existed, and to provide an incentive to be outdoors. The city gave out small booklets to fill in (date walked, etc.) with the address of ea. park and a map. Each page has a question to identify some unique feature of each park so that people had to actually go there to answer the question, e.g., how many swings are there, or some detail about a park sculpture, or what public facility is on the NE side of the park - a fire station, etc.

We’ve been taking our grandkids around each morning to visit anywhere from 1 to 3 parks at a time. At the end you get a T-shirt and attend a free picnic to celebrate the achievement. Been in our town for 28 years and never knew that many of these parks existed, or ever visited them.

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