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You can get involved with Citizen Science by recording your sightings of Monarchs and even by reporting the planting of milkweed.

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Citizen Science is a great way to get you, your students, your children and families involved in simple scientific research.  It only takes a couple of clicks to enter simple observations and it is fun!

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You can be involved just briefly, with simple data entry and looking at the results, or you can be involved with complete lessons and engaging units for your students.

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What is Citizen Science?

Citizen Science is scientific research conducted in whole or in part by amateur or non professional scientists.  You might think of it as public participation in scientific research.

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a natural leaders programme aimed at young people and 74 family nature clubs have been founded around the country to help families get out into the wild together.

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"Kids can grow fine up without nature," says Louv, "but with it, there are marked improvements in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning ability, creativity and mental, psychological and spiritual health.

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43% of adult respondents believe children should not be allowed outdoors unsupervised before they are 14.

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"It's that sense of ownership that's important – ownership of nature. How many children get that now? For this generation, nature is more of an abstraction than a physical reality. Kids today can tell you about the Amazon rainforest, but not about the last time they went into a wood alone. Nature is something to watch from a distance, something to consume. Something very profound has happened in children's relationship to nature."

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Let kids play outside

Less time inside and more time outside

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nature deficit disorder' to describe the damage caused to children who never experience the natural world.

not to shield them from adventures in the great outdoors