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For resources and information about the benefits of taking your students outdoors, see:
For getting started with outdoors education, and other practical suggestions, see:
- Tips for Teaching Outside the Classroom
- Buy-In and Begin
- Bin There, Done That
- Eight Ways to Make Outdoor Educating Attainable
- Composting at School
- How to Teach Outside
For suggestions for naturalizing part of your school grounds the simple, cheap, patient and educational way, see:
- Buy-In and Begin
- Healthy Soil, Healthy People I
- Healthy Soil, Healthy People II
- Plant for Pedagogy I
- Plant for Pedagogy II
- Plant for Pedagogy III: What not to Plant
- Adapting School Grounds for Outdoor Learning
- Composting at School
For information and ideas about free play at recess on your school grounds, see:
- Hidden Curriculum I
- Hidden Curriculum II
- Free Play I
- Free Play II
- Igloo Can-Do
- Winter Is For The Birds
- Odjibwe Game and Obstacle Course
- More Winter Play Ideas
- The Versatility of a Hundred Grid
Science lessons outdoors at school are found on these pages. Posts labeled I are autumn activities, II are winter activities, and III are spring activities:
- What is Outdoor Education?
- STEM Field Trips at School
- Outdoor Project Based Learning, an Introduction
- Kindergarten Science Field Trips at School I
- Kindergarten Science Field Trips at School II
- Kindergarten Science Field Trips at School III
- First Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- First Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- First Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Second Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Second Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Second Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Third Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Third Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Third Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Third Grade Science Field Trips at School IV
- Fourth Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Fourth Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Fourth Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Fourth Grade PBL Outdoors
- Junior Grades Science Field Trips at School
- Fifth Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Fifth Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Fifth Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Sixth Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Sixth Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Sixth Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Sixth Grade PBL Outdoors
- Seventh Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Seventh Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Seventh Grade Science Field Trips at School III
- Eighth Grade Science Field Trips at School I
- Eighth Grade Science Field Trips at School II
- Eighth Grade Science Field Trips at School III
Outdoor Math lessons are found on these pages.
- The Versatility of a Hundred Grid
- Math Field Trips at School I
- Math Field Trips at School II
- Math Field Trips at School III
- Math Field Trips at School IV
Outdoor Literacy lessons are described here:
- Literacy Field Trips at School I
- Literacy Field Trips at School II
- Literacy Field Trips at School III
- Literacy Field Trips at School IV
- Foreign Language Field Trip at School
Outdoor Art lessons can be found here:
- Art Field Trips at School I
- Art Field Trips at School II
- Art Field Trips at School III
- Art Field Trips at School IV
Find videos or anecdotes of real schools and teachers engaged in outdoor education here:
- Last Child in the Classroom
- What is Outdoor Education?
- Literacy Field Trips at School I
- Forest Schools
- Getting Outside: Mr. Marohn's Story
- Third Grade Field Trips at School IV
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