Outdoor Classrooms Archives

"The goal of the Outdoor Classroom is simple: to increase the quantity, quality, and benefits of outdoor experiences for children. Learning takes place outdoors that doesn't occur indoors. It is important, then, that outdoor environments be as richly and thoughtfully equipped as indoor ones" - Eric Nelson

ADST End of Year Project: Magidome

Math Outdoors, Outdoor Classrooms, Playful Learning Outdoors

From time to time, I am sent teaching resources to review. I was offered a Magidome kit during the 2021…
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Best Books About Rain

Book Recommendations, Literacy Outdoors

If you are going to teach outdoors, you’ll need to make your peace with some rainy days. Rather than seeing…
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How to Build a Tippy Tap

Outdoor Classroom Set Up

Once Covid became a realty in our schools, the urgency to take students outdoors increased. Across Canada, a return to…
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Professional Library for Outdoor Educators

Book Recommendations, Getting Started

Over the last twenty years I’ve been teaching and learning outside in a variety of capacities. Both as a parent…
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How to Build a Music Wall in your Outdoor Classroom

Outdoor Classroom Set Up, Playful Learning Outdoors

Music Is Not My Strongest Subject But… Of all the curricular content I teach as an elementary school educator, music…
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Homma elementary school walking field trips

Classrooms to Communities

This post is written specifically to support colleagues and visiting TTOCs at Homma elementary school. Teachers from other schools are…
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