Recommend books for teachers to anchor their outdoor learning and inspire their teaching.
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
Over the last twenty years I’ve been teaching and learning outside in a variety of capacities. Both as a parent and a professional educator, I
One hundred years ago Soviet psychologist and play theorist, Lev Vygotsky, argued that play was a purposeful activity for children. Vygotsky believed that a child’s
This post has been written to support imaginative play with a box at home. If you have boxes available from deliveries, or are expecting deliveries,
This post is the second in a series of posts with resources for teachers teaching across the curriculum in their school gardens. This post lists
This post is one of a series of posts listing resources available to teachers seeking tools for teaching across the curriculum in their school gardens.
Loose parts are found or natural objects that have no specific instructions for play and are highly valued for their imaginative and creative affordances for
Thank you to Rene Gualtieri for contributions to this post! Not A Stick Play Having worked at a nature camp, I am very aware of
Math is all around us in nature, and patterning can be a great entry point for students to engage in mathematical thinking and learning while
The emergent curriculum is a valuable tool for student directed inquiry in any outdoor classroom. I often have specific plans for my students that are
How to build a fairy garden that supports creative play in three easy steps!
If you are looking for some room to play, then get on over to Richmond’s Terra Nova playground! The playground is an extension of the Terra Nova
How to Grow Carrots With Kids Carrots can be tricky to grow. Some gardeners have great luck growing them, while others have nothing but trouble.
In this workshop teachers, educational assistants, school councillors and other district personnel are invited to broaden their understanding of how a school garden can be used like any other classroom.
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School garden grants make all the difference in the start up, maintenance and enjoyment of a school garden. Grants and funds from sponsors are often necessary to run outdoor classroom
The people who run Disneyland are my kind of people. Organized, efficient and empowered to make decisions to improve your experience, just about every employee will go out of their
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
Back to school means back to nature. If you’ve got a class of kids, or just a few in your home needing to get outside, check out these great nature
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