Remember This Search Engine?
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed
boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
� Mark Twain
Before Google, before Yahoo and Bing, before Lycos and Alta Vista. Even way before the
internet was developed there was a natural way for children to figure things out while developing a love of learning. It is best applied while “Playing Outside”.
The natural search engine lives in every child. It is called curiosity. In a child’s development
the eagerness to explore, to see what you can find and imagine the significance of those
findings is invaluable. Simply put. curiosity is the desire to learn. Nurturing a child’s curiosity
in an outdoor environment will help develop a lifelong learner.
Research shows that it is a child’s internal desire to learn (their curiosity), not external pressure, that motivates him to seek out new experiences and a desire to understand. Long
term these experiences we provide outdoors will lead to greater success in school and in
their lives.