Bringing Nature Indoors Throughout the School Year

A seasonal curriculum offers the benefits of natural connections between what children are learning indoors to what is happening outdoors. We will look at various ways to bring nature into the classroom and will focus on the how, when and what of seasonal lessons as participants learn how to weave nature throughout the early childhood curriculum.

The topics we will cover include:

- Nature Indoors, Curriculum Outdoors

- Seasonal Standards-Based Lessons

- Found Objects

- Nature-based Arts and Crafts

- Movement and Songs with the Seasons

- Seasonal Successful Routines

- Overcoming barriers: problem-solving obstacles to being outside