With the Manhattan skyline in the background as the sun set during a heat wave on July 24, 2022, children cooled off by playing in a fountain in Domino Park, Brooklyn, a borough of New York City.

The Early Childhood Alliance recently celebrated new outdoor learning spaces at its Beacon Street Learning Program. The Nature Explore Outdoor Classrooms are expected to become a central hub for ...

New Australian research has highlighted the potential of a structured sustainment approach to help early childhood education and care (ECEC) services continue delivering indoor–outdoor free play ...

The first years of life, spanning up to age five, are critical for development. During this time, known as early childhood, children’s brains develop at an astonishing pace to form more than a million ...

We’ve all seen it — kids hunched over tablets, eyes fixed on video games, even on beautiful sunny days. While screens offer learning and entertainment, they’ve quietly replaced something fundamental ...

The rapidly advancing digital age has seen children's daily screen time grow at the expense of experiencing the joy and pleasure of movement, a biological imperative for health. Increasingly sedentary ...

Sauk Rapids-Rice School District voters approved two referendum questions totaling $55 million for a new early childhood center and an outdoor activity complex. The new early childhood center will ...

Intuitively we all know that play is important. It must be (right?) because we see evidence of play in children around the world. It’s not something that we need to teach our children — they seem to ...

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio ...