How do you teach outdoors?
Harmony Crona
2025-05-29 08:44:09
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Creating a number register is an effective way to organise and track your students during outdoor learning activities. Assigning each child a unique number correlated to their place in the register offers numerous advantages. Setting clear boundaries is crucial to ensure the safety and organisation of outdoor learning activities. Before heading outside, take a moment to explain to your students where they are allowed to go and where they should avoid. Agreeing on expectations with your class helps establish a positive and respectful learning environment. Consider these strategies to make transitions seamless and enjoyable: Use Transition Songs or Chants: Incorporate fun and catchy songs or chants to signal the beginning or end of outdoor learning sessions. Outdoor learning is all about hands-on experiences and exploration, which may lead to a bit of messiness. Establish a clear clean-up routine after messy activities, involving the children in the process. Smooth transitions are essential to maintain the flow of learning when moving between indoor and outdoor environments.
Elyse Herzog
2025-05-21 16:17:04
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Attend a PLT workshop and become comfortable teaching outdoors – in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Teachers like these exist everywhere. Find a mentor at a local nature center, through your state environmental education organization, or contact your state PLT program coordinator for help. Also check out the many useful Appendices in PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood guide, for example “Playing It Safe Outdoors”, “Taking Neighborhood Walks”, “Setting Up an Outdoor Classroom”, “Encouraging Unstructured Outdoor Play”, and more. Even reading a story, like “In the Forest of S.T. Shrew” found in PLT’s PreK-8 Guide Activity 8, takes on so many added dimensions, if simply read outdoors.
Isom Bergstrom
2025-05-21 15:09:40
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Teach Outdoors aims to encourage educators to utilise their outside spaces and natural areas effectively – creating memorable learning experiences for children, outside the constraints of the classroom.
With over eight years experience of supporting teachers and schools nationwide, Jo has the knowledge and enthusiasm to help bring any outdoor environment to life.
At Teach Outdoors, we recognise that exciting outdoor experiences can happen anywhere – from a small school playground to a deserted beach, and everywhere in between.
By utilising the environments and natural resources available, we have witnessed, first hand, the positive impact that outside learning opportunities provide.
It was great hands-on practical lesson ideas spanning across all key stages.
I will take my intervention groups outside which I have never done before.
A super session which highlighted how the use of the outdoors can engage and enrich the curriculum.
I will be teaching Maths and English in more engaging ways to encourage ‘out of the box’ thinking.
Fantastic interactive and engaging sessions that have given us many ideas for teaching and learning.
Cecilia Windler
2025-05-21 14:39:02
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Our outdoor learning ideas and activities have been developed by teachers and early years educators, and are ideal for both curriculum-led outdoor learning, Forest Kindergarten, and Forest School. Browse and download our free outdoor lesson ideas for every age and subject area.
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