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Open-air classrooms: Six tips for teaching in the great outdoors With Covid-19, there has never been a better time for children to learn outside
Tue, May 11, 2021, 00:00
“Learning outdoors provides more opportunities for risk-taking, problem-solving, moving the whole body, using the imagination, overcoming fears, engaging in teamwork and tolerating and integrating new sensory experiences.”
This quote from Angela Hanscom’s Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident and Capable Children encapsulates the benefits of outdoor learning.
And, with the Covid-19 pandemic still in our midst, there has never been a better time to bring children outside to learn.