the blog: on education outside

Southlands Elementary: Rethinking where learning happens

Thanks for a great day of being together outdoors! I hope you all have new ideas and thinking about how to plan for and enact education outside the classroom! This website houses hundreds of blog posts to support your journey. If you are looking for something in particular, feel free

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Alberni District Teacher Professional Day

Thank you for joining me today for our session exploring how we might transition to teaching outdoors. The following blog posts and resources might be helpful as you go forward with this work. Blog Posts Transition to teaching outdoors What to wear teaching outside Kid gear for outdoor learning Books

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outdoor play and learning in the rain

Outdoor Play and Learning in the Rain

Thank you to everyone who supported our webinar on April 19 in support of the Wild About Vancouver Festival! We raised several hundred dollars that will go towards providing a free outdoor education festival on June 3. Read more about WAV, and sign up to join here. Full WAV document

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School garden

Comox Valley School Garden Series

Session Six: September 27, 2022 Thanks to everyone who joined me through this series! What a pleasure it has been to learn alongside you all. I hope we can learn together in person sometime soon. If you want to watch the recording of our last session, you can view it

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The Valley School: Risky Play Webinar

Thanks to everyone from the The Valley School for such a warm welcome today! What a joy it is to share my love for unstructured outdoor play in schools! Here are blog posts you may find helpful and resources to support your conversations that may emerge from our session: Blog

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teaching outdoors

SD #38 Transition to teaching outdoors

Thanks to Grauer and Spul’u’kwuks elementary schools for having me join your professional learning today! The following blog posts may be helpful as you build capacity for outdoor play and learning. Blog Posts for Outdoor Play and Learning Transition to teaching outdoors tips for teachers Teaching prep outdoors Homma walking

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Sooke teachers' association

Sooke Teachers’ Association

Outdoor play and learning: November 19, 2021 Join Megan Zeni for this full day workshop that collectively allows us to rethink where learning happens in our schools. We’ll explore pedagogies of play and place while considering how these approaches can be used to joyfully engage children in cross-curricular learning from

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UBC EDCP 320 Physical Health Education

This page is for B.Ed students in the faculty of education at UBC with active links for resources shared during our class that will remain here after our class is complete. If you have quality PHE resources suitable for emerging professionals not listed here, please be sure to connect with

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BC Science Teachers’ Catalyst Conference

It can all be taught outside: Teaching the K-7 science big ideas, core & curricular competencies in your outdoor and garden classrooms Session description  Participants will be introduced to hands-on, interactive, and joyful ways of naturally engaging children in scientific thinking outdoors. Leave with specific strategies for engaging students in

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NDSB – Transition to teaching outdoors

What a fun night with colleagues from the Niagara District School Board! Thank you to all who joined in on our first session of the series. The session was framed around this blog post, if you could not register but want more information!

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