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Green Leaves Supports Schools with Outdoor Learning
What is Outdoor Learning?
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Outdoor Learning is not another subject. It is a way of approaching the way we teach -- covering the same learning objectives but outdoors, providing more stimulus and opportunity for consolidating and extending learning and understanding. Schools have started to take lessons outside in order to take advantage of the wonderful benefits in student health and well-being; to increase student motivation and inspiration; to connect learning to real life examples; and to increase a children's awareness of their environment. This has started to become known as Outdoor Learning in schools. Almost all learning objectives can be taught outside, not all of course, but subjects and topics that can utilise the outdoors to great effects and allow a higher degree of thinking skills and experiential learning. |
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What does Outdoor Learning look like?
As part of their Sharing the Planet unit of inquiry, the children of AAS Pre-K were given the opportunity to visit Green Leaves site once a week throughout the school year. Then, in the spring, the children were grouped according to their interests in order to further develop their inquiries into how 'our connection with nature leads to responsibilities' (Central Idea). Each group was given an entire week to spend in the woods - an amazing Outdoor Learning opportunity - to further develop their connection to nature.
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How can we bring outdoor learning inside?
The children are offered digital landscapes in order to continue developing their theories and furthering their investigations.
