{"id":10532,"date":"2026-04-20T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:56:56","slug":"case-study-the-power-of-a-tiny-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/case-study-the-power-of-a-tiny-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: The power of a tiny bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Engaging preschoolers can help create nature-lovers for life, and provides a valuable connection to a new Landcare audience.<\/p>\n<p>Something as simple as looking at water bugs provides a wonderful opportunity for young kids to really connect with nature, learn through a hands-on activity, and begin to foster an interest in the natural world around them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-power-of-a-tiny-bug_-Bringing-Landcare-into-preschools-Case-Study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Case Study: The power of a tiny bug &#8211; Bringing Landcare into preschools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Engaging preschoolers can help create nature-lovers for life, and provides a valuable connection to a new Landcare audience. Something as simple as looking at water bugs provides a wonderful opportunity for young kids to really connect with nature, learn through a hands-on activity, and begin to foster an interest in the natural world around&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[206,99],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lep-case-studies","tag-education","tag-schools","pmpro-has-access","category-341","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}