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A survey has found Americans spend over 90% of their time indoors.= suspect one of the reasons people spend so much time indoors it's because we have a lot more activities easilyavailable to us indoors than we do outdoors. New program
To spend more time Outdoors one way to spend more time Outdoors is to bring indoors activities outdoors.
"... the research team studied the 20 parks. The "main surprise was that the majority were highly underused," says Moore. One park never saw a single user...The team found that the parks with the most activity had new or recently renovated playgrounds that offered diverse choices for play"
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An intelligent addition for parks to help them grow to meet Community needs
"... the research team studied the 20 parks. The "main surprise was that the majority were highly underused," says Moore. One park never saw a single user...The team found that the parks with the most activity had new or recently renovated playgrounds that offered diverse choices for play"
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University of North Carolina
A recent study of daycare-center playgrounds found that when kids had access to items like balls, hula hoops, and jump ropes, they were more active than when they had only stationary structures to play on... Typical playground equipment does help develop certain motor skills, like climbing," says study coauthor Dianne Ward, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "But kids play harder and longer when they have more portable playthings around."
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One playground leader said that parks were appropriately called urban “breathing spaces” because “breathing was about all one was permitted to do in them” (Boyer, pp. 244-245). . (page 30 link)
“We might forget that parks are supposed to be for play. Striking sculptures...are nice to look at but they take up valuable picnic and catch-playing real estate” link