Unlocking the Chambers:
If you haven't read the Foundation Builder Guide's Arts: The Organic Environments & Materials and The Skills of Discovery, read it here.
Now, if that's not enough, check out the latest research supporting this "nurturing of our inner-selves and growth."
*Must see about the Right and Left Brain. - The Foundation Builder Guide Principles and Organic Environments give us more of a Right & Left brained / poetic way to view life and learning. (see our video on Right & Left Brain learning - What is Seen vs. What is Unseen ~ A look at learning in Original ways.)
1 God & Love - Safety & Security
Be Born of God
Gratitude - Beginning of Happiness (1 Thessalonainans 5:18) Shawn Anchor - The Happy Secret to Better Work
2 Creation & Nature
Learning through outdoor play: Danish-style Kindergarden.
Consider the Benefits of Being in Nature
Numbers in Creation
3 Symbol & Story
Visualization is central to a Successful Journey (also see Alma 32)
Want Emotionally Healthy Children? Tell Family Stories
4 Body & Movement
How Movement & Meditation reduces stress
Cultural Dances Around the World
Learn to East Coast Swing
Consider this kind of Movement
Consider the Benefits of Hiking
5 Language & Words
The need for understanding our Language & Words
Storytelling:
Helping Parents Tell Truly Great Stories - Capturing the Hearts & Minds of the next generation!
The Benefit of Story through The Fairy Tales
Why Your Brain Loves Storytelling
Importance of Storytelling in Education by The Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance (YES!)
Reading Stories to your children A LOUD and How to read aloud better
6 Play & Project
Play Doesn't End With Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess Too
Building Relationships ~ The Parenting Pyramid
Family Work - A Chapter in Strengthening Our Families
7 Rest & Rejuvenation
Adding more Stillness - Simplifying our children's lives
How Meditation Builds Brain Gray Matter
8 Music & Sound
How Singing Together Changes Our Brain
Playing a Musical Instruments and Your Brain
Music and the Mind by Michael Ballum (and this BYU Ed Presentation)
Singing in a Choir can reduce stress, even cancer.
Other Essential Organic Materials
Research on Knitting Reducing Depression & Anxiety
The Organic Material called Sunshine
Writing on Paper versus a Device
Support for Our Educational Philosophy - Original Ways
Some examples of this Whole-brained Learning:
A video giving an example of this Project-based Learning
Recognition, Identify, Comprehend, Harness - Learning
Children Need Art, Story, Poetry and Music
Developing a "Love of Learning"
Showing, verse Telling - The Music of the Gospel
Greek vs. Hebrew Educational Methodology
Hebrew: The Language of Liberty
The U.S. Constitution and 196 Indispensable Principles of Freedom
A Thomas Jefferson Education; Intro to Thomas Jefferson Ed. - Oliver & Rachel DeMille
What is an Education - John Taylor Ghatto
Let's Teach for Mastery, not Test Scores - Sal Khan
Teaching to The Multiple Intelligence's by Howard Gardner