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Water Cycle Inquiry

Garden Science, Outdoor Classrooms, Outdoor Play, Playful Learning, Science, Teach outside, Winter

As a start, water cycles are best experienced, rather than read about. There is no worksheet that can fully capture the water cycle phenomenon, like being out in the rain in your community can. Encourage your class to dress like a scientist, and gear up for outdoor learning when you are starting your water cycle … Read More about Water Cycle Inquiry

Best Books About Rain

Best Books, Outdoor Classrooms, Outdoor Play, Playful Learning, Spring, Teach outside, Winter

If you are going to teach outdoors, you’ll need to make your peace with some rainy days. Rather than seeing rainy days as yucky weather to tolerate, why not look at rainy days as an opportunity to explore and play and learn about the water cycle in a hands on way? The books listed here … Read More about Best Books About Rain

Rainy Day Play Ideas

Best Books, Imaginative Play, Outdoor Classrooms, Outdoor Play, Playful Learning, Teach outside, Winter

Opportunities for playing in rain are sorely missing in many childhoods. It often seems like decisions to stay inside at recess are randomly decided after glancing out a window to check for drops of rain in puddles. One of the few benefits of covid has been an increased awareness across most districts, and from public … Read More about Rainy Day Play Ideas

How to Build a Tippy Tap

COVID 19 home learning ideas, Cross-Curricular Learning, Fall, gardening with kids, How to, Outdoor Classrooms, School Gardens, Science, Teach outside, The Classroom Gardener

Once Covid became a realty in our schools, the urgency to take students outdoors increased. Across Canada, a return to face to face learning saw public health officials, district administrators, and families calling on educators to find creative ways to get more kids outdoors more often. (Don’t forget, this blog is full of ways you … Read More about How to Build a Tippy Tap

Best kid clothing for learning outdoors

Family Life, Outdoor Classrooms, Outdoor Play, Reviews, Teach outside

Learning outdoors has been around forever. With a commitment to reducing communicable disease transmission, our kids are likely to spend even more time outdoors at school going forward. For some families this is a welcome acknowledgment of what they know to be true: kids are happier, healthier, and learn more authentically when they spend lots … Read More about Best kid clothing for learning outdoors

What To Wear Teaching Outside

How to, Outdoor Classrooms, Teach outside, The Classroom Gardener

Formal outdoor education programs are very different than outdoor classrooms. That said, teaching outdoors still requires some planning and preparation, particularly if you are going to spend the majority of your day in less than ideal weather conditions. Scandinavian proverbs remind us there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing! And I … Read More about What To Wear Teaching Outside

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