Land-Based Learning

The Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario Teacher’s Tips Resource

Are you interested in taking your students outside more? Are you unsure of how to best prepare and plan for an outdoor lesson with your class?

This resource is a great starting point. Listed are safety points to consider, curriculum links, assessment strategies and additional resources for further learning. Learning on the land is an authentic experience that can enrich your classroom community.

Natural Curiosity Resource

The second edition of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to situate Indigenous perspectives into the heart of Canadian educational settings and curricula, most notably in connection with environmental issues. 

The Indigenous lens in this edition represents a cross-cultural encounter supporting what can become an ongoing dialogue and evolution of practice in environmental inquiry. Some important questions are raised that challenge us to think in very different ways about things as fundamental as the meaning of knowledge.

Passport to ReconciliACTION Connections

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