This Preschool is Taking Kids out of the Classroom and Into the Great Outdoors

Ronnie Koenig · Today · November 16, 2019

Featuring Dr. Amber Fyfe-Johnson, a Nature and Health researcher

Amber Fyfe-Johnson, ND, PhD, an Assistant Research Professor at the Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University is studying the effects of outdoor learning on kids and believes this type of schooling will lead to better physical and emotional health.

“This is the first one to look at kids that are outside all the time,” said Fyfe-Johnson.

She’s using technology to track the kids’ movements and thinks that she will find that they experience positive effects in everything from sleep quality to digestive health.

It’s a chance for the smallest students to get unplugged lesson plans in a digital age, replacing phones with stones and screens with greens.