The Why
Outdoor Education Research Summary
🌻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 improved achievement in testing.
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.
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.
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.
At Thrive With Outdoor Learning, you will find curriculum-based activities & resources to help you take learning outside.
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.
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
