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Dr. Megan Zeni, Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) Consultant
Dr. Mariana Brussoni, HELP Director &amp; Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health

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Children are naturally drawn to risky play &mdash; to take physical chances, to seek excitement, and to satisfy their curiosity &mdash; and are more physically active when playing outdoors. Join experts Drs. Megan Zeni and Mariana Brussoni for an engaging webinar promoting their newly released book, Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn and Grow! 

Learn practical strategies for supporting outdoor play and learning in the elementary school years, the difference between risks and hazards, and the research demonstrating how risky play supports children&rsquo;s health, development, well-being and learning. The Canadian Pediatric Society recommends risky play, and this webinar will highlight our collective responsibility to encourage and support risky play in the early years and beyond.]]></video:description>
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<video:title><![CDATA[Dr. Mariana Brussoni and Dr. Megan Zeni: Our Schools Are Too Safe]]></video:title>
<video:description><![CDATA[What does recess look like if it is as safe as necessary but not as safe as possible? What are the links between the decline of independent, risky play and the rise in student anxiety? How do we distinguish between healthy &#039;rough-and-tumble&rsquo; play and actual aggression?

Today&rsquo;s Teachers on Fire are Dr. Mariana Brussoni and Dr. Megan Zeni, the authors of the recently published Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn, and Grow. 

0:00:00 - Welcoming Dr. Mariana Brussoni and Dr. Megan Zeni 
2:00 - Distinguishing between RISKS and HAZARDS in the school environment
5:24 - As safe as necessary but not as safe as possible
7:14 - Surplus safety as a barrier to development
10:06 - The 17-second pause before intervening
12:42 - Links between the decline of risky play and the rise in student anxiety
18:35 - Creating &#039;Yes spaces&#039; in our schools
27:02 - Healthy rough-and-tumble play vs actual aggression
30:19 - Items to add to a playground
35:22 - Going outdoors consistently beats occasional trips
38:16 - How and where to connect with the authors online

Dr. Mariana Brussoni is a Professor within the University of British Columbia&rsquo;s Faculty of Medicine and a scientist with British Columbia Children&rsquo;s Hospital Research Institute, where she leads the Outside Play Lab. Her research reimagines how outdoor and risky play can be integrated into everyday life to help children thrive.

Dr. Megan Zeni is a teacher consultant and researcher in the province of British Columbia. She has 3 decades of professional K-7 teaching experience in classrooms, outdoor classrooms, and school gardens. Megan supports just about anyone interested in building capacity for effective and sustainable implementation of risky play, school gardens, and outdoor classrooms in elementary schools. Learn more and follow her work at meganzeni.com.]]></video:description>
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<video:description><![CDATA[Presenters:
Dr. Megan Zeni, Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) Consultant
Dr. Mariana Brussoni, HELP Director &amp; Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health

Event Description
Children are naturally drawn to risky play &mdash; to take physical chances, to seek excitement, and to satisfy their curiosity &mdash; and are more physically active when playing outdoors. Join experts Drs. Megan Zeni and Mariana Brussoni for an engaging webinar promoting their newly released book, Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn and Grow! 

Learn practical strategies for supporting outdoor play and learning in the elementary school years, the difference between risks and hazards, and the research demonstrating how risky play supports children&rsquo;s health, development, well-being and learning. The Canadian Pediatric Society recommends risky play, and this webinar will highlight our collective responsibility to encourage and support risky play in the early years and beyond.]]></video:description>
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<video:description><![CDATA[HELP Coffee Talks is a virtual series featuring a HELP faculty member speaking with an expert in the field of child well-being and child development who is also a friend, colleague, or collaborator of HELP. Each 30 minute chat explores - via 3 questions &ndash; the latest research and also practical strategies people can use in their daily lives, especially those working with children or who have children themselves. 

Megan Zeni is a teacher, author and consultant who brings a wealth of experience both teaching outdoors and leading outdoor learning professional development sessions for teachers. Together, Megan and Dr. Eva Oberle discuss the role outdoor learning can play in schools and how teachers can start implementing outdoor learning activities in their classrooms.]]></video:description>
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<video:description><![CDATA[2017-03-21 - In this video about the Tomatosphere&trade; educational project, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet explains the importance of growing fresh fruits and vegetables in space to nourish future travelers embarking on long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. 

Tomatosphere&trade; is a blind study in which Canadian and American students in 20, 000 classrooms grow tomato plants stemming from seeds that either travelled to space or stayed on Earth&mdash;but the seeds&rsquo; history remain a mystery until the end.

Typically, the space-faring tomato seeds spend four weeks aboard the International Space Station. 

Tomatosphere&trade; engages students in real scientific processes that teach and reinforce inquiry skills, while they explore concepts related to plants, space, careers, nutrition and agriculture.

Educators: sign up for Tomatosphere&trade; and join classrooms nationwide to contribute to the expansion of knowledge for long term space travel!

Tomatosphere&trade; is sponsored by HeinzSeed, Stokes Seeds, the University of Guelph, Let&#039;s Talk Science, First the Seed Foundation and the Canadian Space Agency. (Credits: Canadian Space Agency, NASA, ESA, Let&#039;s Talk Science)

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Tomatosphere: http://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/educators/tomatosphere.asp

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<video:description><![CDATA[Presenters:
Dr. Megan Zeni, Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) Consultant
Dr. Mariana Brussoni, HELP Director &amp; Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health

Event Description
Children are naturally drawn to risky play &mdash; to take physical chances, to seek excitement, and to satisfy their curiosity &mdash; and are more physically active when playing outdoors. Join experts Drs. Megan Zeni and Mariana Brussoni for an engaging webinar promoting their newly released book, Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn and Grow! 

Learn practical strategies for supporting outdoor play and learning in the elementary school years, the difference between risks and hazards, and the research demonstrating how risky play supports children&rsquo;s health, development, well-being and learning. The Canadian Pediatric Society recommends risky play, and this webinar will highlight our collective responsibility to encourage and support risky play in the early years and beyond.]]></video:description>
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<video:description><![CDATA[Join Mariana and Megan as they share the &lsquo;BE OUT&rsquo; digital tool. BE OUT is a new tool for elementary (K-7) school teachers and includes exemplars of outdoor learning from teachers all across Canada organized in a digital format. 

The tool is designed with very short (90 second) modules and targets teachers new to teaching outdoors with support in four key areas: understanding risky play in the school context; getting started teaching outdoors; teaching with an emergent curriculum; and assessment of learning. 

Dr. Mariana Brussoni is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership and Professor at the University of British Columbia and BC Children&rsquo;s Hospital Research Institute. Her research investigates child injury prevention and children&rsquo;s outdoor risky play with the aim of creating environments where all children can play outside every day.

Megan Zeni is a mom of 3, an experienced elementary school teacher, and a master gardener. Megan successfully re-imagined the prep position in her public school and turned it into her dream job of spending her days with children in the garden classroom. Megan is an advocate for taking children outdoors at school in all kinds of weather to learn, play, and grow. Megan is also a PhD candidate at UBC in curriculum &amp; pedagogy.

Grow your outdoor educator skills with: https://outdoorlearningstore.com/product/dirty-teaching/
Learn more about Outdoor Learning and Play here: https://outsideplay.ca/]]></video:description>
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<video:description><![CDATA[Promoting Outdoor Play in Schools &amp; Communities
Moving from risk and barriers to opportunities and facilitators

May 10th, 2021

8:03 - Dr. Marianna Brussoni - Promoting Outdoor Play
25:13 - Dr. Eva Oberle - Barriers and Supports for Outdoor Learning in Elementary Schools: A Systemic Perspective
43:27 - Megan Zeni - Solutions to Barriers for Outdoor Play

Outdoor play promotes children&rsquo;s healthy social and physical development, emotional wellbeing, self-confidence, risk management and provides opportunities for being physically active. However, free outdoor play in childhood has declined across past generations and been widely displaced by structured activities that take place indoors and tend to be sedentary. Concerns about risks involved in outdoor play have led many families to believe that children are safest indoors. Child care settings and schools can play a critical role in (re)-connecting children to the outdoors and to offer opportunities for outdoor play and outdoor learning for all children in society. Please watch Megan Zeni, teacher, author, PhD Student, Faculty of Education, UBC, and Room to Play Consultant, Dr. Eva Oberle, Assistant Professor, HELP and SPPH, and Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Scientist with the BC Children&rsquo;s Hospital Research Institute and the BC Injury Research &amp; Prevention Unit, as they explore this disparity, sharing the latest research and information, including a new online educational tool to help early childhood educators learn about the importance of outdoor play for children in their centres&rsquo; and provided strategies for implementation. 

RESOURCES
Dr. Mariana Brussoni
&bull;  Dr. Mariana Brussoni&rsquo;s website: https://outsideplay.ca/ 
&bull;  Dr. Mariana Brussoni&rsquo;s Lab: https://brussonilab.ca/projects/
&bull;  Pan-Canadian Outdoor Play statement: http://www.phn-rsp.ca/aop-position-jae/index-eng.php 
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<video:description><![CDATA[Megan Zeni is a mom of 3, an experienced elementary school teacher, and a master gardener. Megan successfully re-imagined the prep position in her public school and turned it into her dream job of spending her days with children in the garden classroom.

Megan is an advocate for taking children outdoors at school in all kinds of weather to learn, play, and grow. She believes just about anything can be taught in a school garden, and that class time spent in nature develops empathy, resiliency, and self-regulated learning. Megan is a PhD candidate at UBC in curriculum &amp; pedagogy.

Her research interests include developing professional learning networks with in-service teachers to weave systems of schooling with emerging pedagogies of place and play. Megan brings over 25 years of K-7 public school teaching experience to her research and consulting, and shares her learning on social media at @roomtoplay and on her blog at meganzeni.com]]></video:description>
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