Outdoor Learning
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The Why
Outdoor Education Research Summary
🌻10 Benefits of Outdoor Education🌳
🌻10 Benefits of Outdoor Education🌳
Suitability for Learning Styles
2. Higher Grades
3. Increased Motivation
4. Sparking Passions for Science
5. Self-efficacy
6. Mindfulness
7. Personal Growth
8. Positive Behaviour
9. Environmental Attitudes
10. Overall Health
Students engaged in outdoor learning have more positive attitudes toward school, feel more responsibility and ownership over school work, demonstrate improved confidence and self-esteem, and experience improved achievement with learning.
Websites
School yard activities from Regina Public Schools.
Sask Outdoors inspires curiosity and play in nature by passionately delivering programs and services that promote ecological understanding and environmental responsibility.
Sask Outdoors inspires curiosity and play in nature by passionately delivering programs and services that promote ecological understanding and environmental responsibility.
Outside play learning hub is a collection of resources that can be used for outdoor play and learning in schools.
The ultimate goal is to encourage more outside time during the school day. Our programs are simple, fun and accessible to all.
LSF is a Canadian charity that has been working for over 30 years to integrate sustainability education into Canada’s school system.
Learning for a Sustainable Future’s (LSF) Resources for Rethinking is your online database for quality sustainability teaching resources! All resources are reviewed by teachers for teachers, matched to your curriculum, and available for free or low cost.
At Thrive With Outdoor Learning, you will find curriculum-based activities & resources to help you take learning outside.
We aim to enable children and young people to connect with nature, be more active, be more engaged with their learning, develop their skills and have fun.
The Outdoor Learning Store provides a 30 hour online course for teaching outside. Check out this Certification Program!
Introductory Plains Cree Language Course through the Outdoor Learning School.
Rhythms of Play is filled with seasonal screen-free activities for kids from toddlers to teens (and their parents)!
Outdoor Play Canada
Rhythms of Play is filled with seasonal screen-free activities for kids from toddlers to teens (and their parents)!
Resources
Sask Outdoors slidshow presentation
Trees & Me is for young children ages 1–6 to experience nature, with a particular focus on trees.
Land based learning lesson plan search has well researched and high quality PDF cross-curricular lesson plans.
This Guidebook is designed to support educators through the stumbling blocks they might encounter when bringing outdoor learning into their practice for the first time.
This toolkit supports practicitioners who encourage children's outdoor play.
When you want to say, "Be Careful"
Frequently Asked Questions
5 Materials to Spark Imagination and Curiosity
Inclusive Outdoor Learning
Land Based Learning
It is about learning from the land and understanding our connection to it. Understanding our connection will give life to what the land can teach us, how it communicates with us and how it looks after all life uppon it.
Discover Wild Learning with Rachel Tidd, outdoor learning advocate, educator, and author of Wild Learning: Practical Ideas to Bringing Teaching Outdoors, Wild Math, and Wild Reading curricula.
Victoria Hackett, M.Ed. teaching educators and parents how to cultivate nature based learning.
The SWF offers a variety of outdoor education and heritage programs that give people of all ages the opportunity to get closer to nature.
Books
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