Sustaining Outdoor Classrooms
How to keep outdoor classrooms from becoming a forgotten and abandoned bed of weeds
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Mar 31
Mar 31
The Field of Dreams (and Other Outdoor Classroom Myths)
It takes more than benches and butterfly bushes to create a well-used outdoor classroom. Here’s how one school is succeeding through creative ideas that give teachers the training, tools, and confidence to take learning outdoors.
Mar 31
Roots of Diversity: Growing Culturally Significant Plants in the Classroom
Ideas and curricular connections for growing plants that celebrate the cultural diversity of our communities.
Mar 31
Georgia’s Outdoor Classroom Symposium
How Georgia educators have developed the most successful outdoor classroom movement on the continent.
Mar 31
Valuing Nature in Environmental Education
Activities for introducing concepts of environmental economics, for grades 5-6.
Mar 31
Sunnyside and the Wolf
Testifying at public hearings on contentious issues is an opportunity for students to gain first-hand experience in participatory democracy and an understanding of their role as citizens.
Mar 31
Kids Teaching Kids: The Tantramar Wetlands Centre Project
Known as the "Wetheads," a group of New Brunswick high school students are delivering wetland education programs to 4,000 schoolchildren annually at the school's restored wetland.
Mar 31
Mar 31
Something’s Choking Auntie Elm
In this activity, students learn about several exotic species in North America and gather information to determine their impact on the environment.
Adapted with permission from "Noxious Neighbours: Exotics in Our Backyard", Centre for Environmental Education, Middle Tennessee State University
Mar 31
A Date with Freddie Kudza
In this highly interactive physical activity, students learn about the characteristics of invasive exotic pest plants by becoming exotic pests themselves!
