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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
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Preparing spaces for outdoor learning means considering how your schoolyard can become a creative, imaginative space for joyful wonder and inquiry across the curriculum.
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How to Build a Music Wall in your Outdoor Classroom
Music Is Not My Strongest Subject But… Of all the curricular content I teach as an elementary school educator, music is likely my weakest subject
10 Tips for Teaching Outside the Classroom
Teaching outdoors is nothing new. As a species, humans have evolved to learn outdoors. For thousands of years, we have actively learned from experience alongside
Teaching Prep Outside
My role as a teacher is always evolving. Over the past 20 years, I’ve taught just about every grade in public elementary schools across two
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Garden Vocabulary Vase and Scavenger Hunt
One of my favourite, low prep ways to enhance and develop garden vocabulary in the outdoor classroom is to prepare garden vocabulary vases that serve
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How To Build A Dinosaur Garden
If you’ve ever fallen into the black hole of Pinterest, you’ve certainly seen some cute and fun ideas for gardening with kids. Which is great
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How to Build a Bug Hotel
Bug hotels are an essential addition to any garden, and particularly a children’s garden. There are really only two reasons to build them. One is
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How to Plant a Rainbow Garden with Kids
Planting with a theme in mind is a fun and engaging way to begin any garden project with kids. Over the years, I’ve planted several
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BC School Garden Grants
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
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How To Build A Mud Kitchen
International Mud Day is June 29th this year, and if you are going to have a garden with kids, it makes sense to have a
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If play is truly the work of the child, then dress up play must be the ultimate job description! Imaginative, fantasy play is achievable when just a few props are
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One of the best Halloween math activities to teach in an outdoor classroom this time of year is pumpkin math. If you’ve grown your own pumpkins during the summer and