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December 6, 2024

Tips for Outdoor Learning Spaces

A walk in nature walks the soul back home.
– Mary Davis

Here is another sustainability tip featured in the Nature Explore e-newsletter, from the book, Keeping it Growing:

Tip: Identify individual staff’s unique interests, skills, and needs related to the outdoor classroom.

Why this is important: Empowered and engaged teachers feel ownership and are involved in the decision-making process to keep Nature Explore Classrooms looking good and working well.

Recommendations:

  • Offer each staff member a chance to work on projects that feel good to them. When educators receive individualized support as they begin to teach with nature, they soon find meaningful ways to express their interests and share their gifts with the rest of the staff. They come to understand the ways in which the nature-based outdoor classroom can make their teaching more effective, interesting, and enjoyable.

  • Does your program care for infants and toddlers and have an interest in loose parts? Check out this article, “Loose Parts for Infants and Toddlers” by Shirley Murrilo available in English and Spanish.

  • Discover the Forest is a collaborative program of the US Forest Serve and NAAEE that provides a variety of activities available in English and Spanish categorized by interest to spark those important connections to nature.


Want to stay informed and receive sustainability tips for outdoor classrooms? Join the Nature Explore mailing list and receive monthly tips and recommendations.

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