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Considerations
Considerations
Many teachers across BC already have outdoor learning as part of their daily or weekly routine with their classes and as a way for students to make connections with math to the world around them.
· Medical, psychological and educational research support the importance of children being outdoors. The Outdoor Play Canada website has the following article: Pandemic Play: Child-Centred Policy in a Global Crisis.
· What logistical considerations are there for learning outdoors?
o Weather-appropriate footwear and clothing
o Access to materials (wagon, backpack with materials such as clipboards, measuring tapes, sidewalk chalk, etc)
o Tarp, rope, carabiners for creating a shelter or meeting spot
o Individual sit-upons
o First Aid kit, communication device to call school office if necessary
· What mathematical content and competencies are most suitable for learning outdoors?
Resources for Teaching Outdoors
Resources for Teaching Outdoors
Richmond teacher and UBC PhD student Megan Zeni teaches outdoor learning through a school garden at Homma Elementary in School District #38. Here she shares some tips for teaching outdoors.
HELP (UBC Human Early Learning Partnership) with a video coffee talk with Megan Zeni about outdoor learning and how school might look different this fall.
Outdoor-Numeracy-Pack-LowRes.pdfNew resource from Juliet Robertson in the UK - author of Messy Maths: Outdoor Numeracy: 100 Ideas
BCNN_Outdoor_Learning_Links2558[6478].pdfOutdoor Learning Links for Numeracy
Outdoor Learning Links for Numeracy
This PDF document contains a comprehensive list of links and descriptions to support learning outdoors with a numeracy focus complied by the BC Numeracy Network.
Some of the resources listed are also highlighted below.
SD38_K-5_Outdoor_Learning_Math_June2020[2852].pdfK-5 Mathematics & Numeracy Focused Outdoor Learning Experiences
K-5 Mathematics & Numeracy Focused Outdoor Learning Experiences
Compiled and described by Janice Novakowski, SD38.
Highlighted from the Outdoor Learning Links document are a series of interdisciplinary projects created by Janice Novakowski that could be used in online, face-to-face settings or both.
SD38_Project-Growing_Things.pdfSD38_Project-Maps.pdfSD38_Project-Shadows.pdfSD38_Project-Structures.pdfSurrey Aboriginal Math Resources SD#36[2561].pdfAboriginal Math Resources
Aboriginal Math Resources
Compiled by SD36 Surrey
Math Walks presents a series of problems in the form of sidewalk diagrams. Each problem links to further resources to explore more deeply and for more examples/ideas to include.
General Resources for Teaching Outdoors
General Resources for Teaching Outdoors
This series of videos was created by Lauren Maclean (mentoring support teacher from SD43) to support teachers and learners to engage in outdoor learning.
Sit Spot
Sit Spot
This is an educational video for teachers to use with their students on how to introduce the nature routine of the Sit Spot.
Patterns
Patterns
This video is about going for a nature walk, finding patterns and learning how to identify plants and trees using patterns and field guides.
Mapping
Mapping
This video is about how to map your landscape while out on a nature walk. How does spatial reasoning come into play? What are the different ways we can map?
Exploring with Field Guides
Exploring with Field Guides
This video is about Exploring Field Guides with your students. What resources do we need to help foster a love of learning in nature?
The Environmental Educators Provincial Specialist Association has a number of links to Environmental, Place Based, Sustainability, Outdoor, Experiential, and Aboriginal Education resources for ideas, inspiration and support.
Book list to help integrate outdoor learning and experiences so that this is the focus of the learning: "learning in nature, not just about nature".
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