Outdoor learning linked to gains in literacy, well-being for children and teachers, study finds

Children who spend time learning outside may reap benefits physically, academically, and emotionally, according to a Texas ...
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The great outdoors: Partners in Learning takes classroom outside

SALISBURY — Everyone has fond memories of spending time outdoors as a child, but the life skills developed while playing in the backyard are not as readily apparent. An early education center in ...
Sarasota Magazine

How Outdoor Learning Helps Students Manage Stress and Anxiety

If you're a student—or even if you've just been around students lately—you've probably noticed that stress and anxiety seem to be at an all-time high. Between heavy academic workloads, social ...
EdSource

Why many colleges are giving more credit for learning outside the classroom

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room When she enlisted in the Navy in 2003, Alice Keeney attended naval nuclear power school. There, she learned how to safely operate the nuclear ...
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Learning by playing outside

In 2020 and 2021, to avoid the spread of the covid-19 virus, we had to stay at home as much as possible. This home-away-from-home period had an effect on us in the years that followed. Going outside ...
University of Wyoming

Place-based Learning and Outdoor Experiences

What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...
Portland Press Herald

Brunswick Superintendent’s Notebook: Schools taking kids, classrooms outside

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Remember how much we enjoyed class field trips? Whether it was a trip to the ...
Portland Press Herald

Why outdoor learning matters for Maine kids | Opinion

When kids move their bodies and feel a sense of belonging in nature, they show up more confidently in class. As a tween, I spent every winter Friday on the ski bus to Pat’s Peak in New Hampshire and I ...
inforum

A Minnesota kindergarten program takes learning outside

MINNETONKA, Minn. -- Just after 10 a.m. on a recent balmy January morning in Minnetonka, three classes of kindergarten students from Gatewood Elementary have gathered outside, bundled in their ...
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Outside learning is the norm at this Newburyport, Mass., school

BRAVING THE ELEMENTS. THEN YOU CAN PUT YOUR BACKPACK RIGHT IN THE WAGON. IT’S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL HERE IN BOX FORD, MASSACHUSETTS. I LOVE YOU. HAVE A GREAT TIME IN THE. HERE WE GO WITH THE ...
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Outside learning is the norm at this Newburyport, Mass., school

RIGHT IN THE WAGON. IT’S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL HERE IN BOXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. I LOVE YOU. HAVE A GREAT TIME IN THE. HERE WE GO WITH THE FAMILIAR FIRST DAY. FEARS DROP OFF OFTEN BRINGS MORNING ILIA ...