
- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Teaching Outdoors Creatively
About this book
Teaching Outdoors Creatively offers guidance and a variety of exciting ideas to suit the full range of primary schools and locations. Underpinned by current research and practical experience, it investigates innovative approaches to working creatively with children beyond the classroom.
While recognising the diverse needs and opportunities that primary schools have to develop the outdoors as part of their curriculum, it presents a broad range of activities, philosophies and approaches. Key themes explored include:
- Understanding and using local and home environments
- Investigating streets and buildings in your area
- Planning fieldwork
- Using rivers to inspire children
- Forest schools
- Beach schools
- Physical education outdoors
- Learning through adventure.
Teaching Outdoors Creatively supports teaching and learning in a wide range of settings, from schools in rural and urban areas, to off-site outdoor education centres and residential visits. With a focus on developing effective and stimulating learning environments for children it is a must-have resource for all busy trainee and practising teachers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Series editor’s foreword
- 1 Everyday places and spaces
- 2 Taking the learning outdoors at KS1: extending early years practice for 5 to 7 year olds 12
- 3 Streetwork: investigating streets and buildings in the local area
- 4 Creative fieldwork: whose place is this anyway?
- 5 Storying the outdoors
- 6 Forest School: opportunities for creative and spiritual growth
- 7 Beach schools
- 8 Curious explorations
- 9 Creative approaches for teaching physical education in the outdoors
- 10 Creative approaches to teaching through adventure
- 11 The future outdoors: learning from around the world
- Index