Animal healers.
Green Chimneys is a special school 65 miles north of New York City, catering for children with emotional, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. It's an unusual school, in that it has a 165-acre farm with 200 farm animals, and a wildlife rehabilitation centre. Central to the school'...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2006.
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| Series: | Education in video
Inspirations ; 1 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Green Chimneys is a special school 65 miles north of New York City, catering for children with emotional, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. It's an unusual school, in that it has a 165-acre farm with 200 farm animals, and a wildlife rehabilitation centre. Central to the school's ethos is a belief in the therapeutic power of the interaction between children and animals. Assistance-dog training classes are one example of the way animal-related activities are woven into daily life. The dogs learn new skills, while their trainers, the pupils, learn how to bond with other living things. The learning-with-nature ethos extends to the classroom, where we see a science lesson that is part of a project on raising brook trout. And in the open air, pupils help to release rescued animals back into the wild. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (13 min.). |