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Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide 0

Over 50 pages of great ideas, real world examples,strategies, inspirations and tips for realizing an Outdoor Classroom. Broken out by different learning areas, this guide will help you create a new quality outdoor learning area or ready your existing space for STEM, literacy, creative arts, construction as well energetic play.

Apr 15, 2021
Bogdan Pospielovsky
Tags: art block play blocks child care community playthings early years education furniture health math Outdoor Learning play and learn pre-primary puzzles and games Reopening resources room planning school age toddler toys

3 Quick Transformations of Tarmac into an Outdoor classroom 0

The health, educational and developmental benefits of open-air learning have been prompting early years classrooms to move outdoors for a number of years. And now the need for outdoor learning spaces is pressing more than ever as a preventative health measure in the midst of a pandemic. But many schools are challenged by a lack of naturalized spaces and instead are surrounded by an abundance of paved playground and parking space.

We look at three quick and flexible ways to gain softened outdoor classroom space without resorting to jackhammers or bulldozers.

Oct 15, 2020
Angela Mpala
Tags: child care early years education math Outdoor Learning play and learn pre-primary resources school age STEM toddler

Learning Outside the School in a COVID World 0

Across Canada child care centres are re-opening while keeping both children and staff safe in a world reshaped by COVID-19. In this second of a series of blog posts we’ll look at outdoor learning for a safer education environment in a pandemic context.

Jun 22, 2020
Bogdan Pospielovsky
Tags: blocks Outdoor Learning professional development Reopening sanitation

Bring Indoors Out and Outdoors In, to Upgrade Your Space 1

This Upgrade Your Space article is focusing on items that bring the outdoors in or the indoors out: Outlast blocks and a Mud Kitchen. Their extra versatility really reduces your Cost per Use and increases the value of your upgrade.