Ryan Rusbuldt-outside reading 2

I picked up a book in the lib called, "Wild Things". It is a book explaining to children why the wild is important and also explains to them the culture of others.
The book tells stories about children's literature and how they explain the wild. "Surprisingly, very little research has looked at changes in the depiction of nature to children over the years (Rodgers,151)." The book explains the common material which kids are learning. Most books incorporate interaction with nature, then cause and effect of humans in nature. They also touch on survival and how the nature is important so we can breath and have habitats for animal, and the third reason is based upon the good and evil of living and nonliving things. These three main topics are going to keep the children very close minded about the wilderness and most of them will not care. Nature should be more heavily put in the curriculum to give the children a better understand of what it really can do for the spirit and heart as well as body and earth.