Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to celebrate and inspire outdoor learning and play! Join Nature Play and thousands of schools around Australia in taking learning and play outdoors, and by celebrating on and Thursday 18 May and Thursday 2 November 2023!
What is Outdoor Classroom Day?
TheΒ Outdoor Classroom Day movement is a day to celebrate and inspire outdoor learning and play. More than just one day, our aim is to get as many children as possible playing and learning outside, every day, with a celebration of outdoor learning and play on Thursday 18 May and Thursday 2 November 2023.
Why? Outdoor learning improves childrenβs health, engages them with learning and leads to a greater connection with nature. Play not only teaches critical life skills such as resilience, teamwork and creativity, but is central to childrenβs enjoyment of childhood. Β With increasing pressures on childhood, children today are too often overprotected, overscheduled, and overly attached to screens, which is why itβs more crucial than ever before to help get children outdoors.
Get Involved
Itβs easy to get involved and there is something everyone can do!
If youβre aΒ teacher, educator or school administratorΒ and new to outdoor learning, why not useΒ Outdoor Classroom DayΒ to try it out? Or, if youβre already involved in outdoor learning, use the day to celebrate what you do and inspire other teachers around the world to join in.
If youβre aΒ parent, talk to your childβs school about the importance of outdoor learning and play. Ask them how they will get involved and offer to help out on the day if they need a bit of extra support.
If you work for anΒ organisationΒ that cares about children, nature, education or the environment,Β speak to usΒ about how you can get involved.
We've got lesson plans, posters, inspiration, hints and tips - everything you needΒ to celebrate taking part in theΒ amazingΒ Outdoor Classroom DayΒ movement! Β Find out more and sign up todayΒ at:Β www.outdoorclassroomday.com.au
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Join Us!
The campaign is led globally byΒ ActionFunder.Β Nature Play WAΒ and ourΒ sister organisationsΒ are proudlyΒ leading the movementΒ in Australia! Β Play for today, prepared for tomorrow.
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Need some advice on the best places to play and learn at your school? Ask the experts! When you're back in the classroom for Term 4, take your students outside to explore the school grounds, looking for its best play spaces. Use the prompts on the Exploring Play Spaces teacher resources as a guide and be amazed at what you discover!
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Exploring Play Spaces - Teacher Resource
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Need some advice on the best places to play and learn at your school? Ask the experts! Take your students outside to explore the school grounds, looking for its best play spaces.1 CommentComment on Facebook
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Sounds are only for our ears⦠or are they? Challenge yourself to make a sound into something you can see. For this challenge, students will need to use their eyes and ears to recreate sounds they hear in different ways! This lesson is great for getting the creative juices flowing!
The lesson plan is designed for upper and lower primary, as is part of the My Outdoor Classroom Nature Passport, created by Nature Play WA with the support of Public education in Western Australia (lesson plan links in the comments)
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Take your class outdoors to create collaborative stories based on the shapes they find in the clouds! This activity can be used as both a science lesson and an imaginative story-writing project. What wild and wonderful tales will your students devise?
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Stories in the Sky
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Take your class outdoors to create collaborative stories together, based on the shapes they find in the clouds!0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Connecting to nature can restore our sense of wellbeing. For children, this connection is best made through play β whether outdoors in nature or indoors with natural elements.
This Making Faces activity from Fields In Trust will help children explore the natural elements they can find in their garden or in the park. Oh, and itβs fun too!
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Making Faces
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Connecting to nature can restore our sense of wellbeing. For children, this connection is best made through play β whether outdoors in nature or indoors with natural elements.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Children and bugs - a match made in heaven! This fun lesson idea lets your students build their own bug hotel, while learning about the important role insects play in our ecosystem.
All they need is an empty aluminium can, a can opener, natural materials like sticks and bark, cardboard and a sheltered spot. Watch our "how to" video and get building!
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Tin Can Bug Hotel - Outdoor Classroom Day Australia
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Get the children in your care outdoors and protecting nature with this tin can bug hotel activity from Backyard Nature.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Challenge pupils to investigate journeys and map-making, by exploring whatβs around them and creating their very own βjourney stickβ.
A fantastic way to develop geographical understanding while getting closer to nature!
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Journey Sticks - Outdoor Classroom Day Australia
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Challenge pupils to investigate journeys and map-making, by exploring whatβs around them and creating their very own βjourney stickβ.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Need some assistance in assessing the benefits and risks of taking your class outdoors for learning? This template, taken from Balancing Risks and Benefits in Outdoor Learning and Play by Tim Gill, will help you assess risks and articulate the benefits in play and learning environments. Now nothing will stop you from getting outdoors to play and learn!
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Risk Benefit Assessment Form
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This template risk benefit assessment form will help you assess risks and articulate the benefits in play and learning environments. Now nothing will stop you from getting outdoors to play and learn!0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Harness the boundless energy of your students and explore the outdoors with a game of Texture Tag!
When you go outside, there is so much to touch and feel. Take your class on an adventure to explore textures and get ready to run and touch!
Designed for Lower and Upper Primary, these lesson plans are part of a suite created with guidance and support from Public education in Western Australia
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Texture Tag Lesson Plan
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When you go outside, there is so much to touch and feel. Go on an adventure to explore textures and get ready to run and touch!0 CommentsComment on Facebook
It's time to step outside and unlock the limitless possibilities of outdoor education.
Whether you're planning your first outdoor lesson or seeking fresh inspiration, "Getting Going with Outdoor Learning" by renowned outdoor learning and play advocate is your passport to creating memorable, impactful lessons that will shape your students' lives. πΏπ outdoorclassroomday.com.au/resource/getting-going-outdoor-learning/
Share this post with your fellow educators and let's embark on this incredible outdoor learning journey together! ππ #OutdoorLearning #NatureEducation #InspireYoungMinds #OutdoorClassroomDay
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Getting Going With Outdoor Learning
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Whether you have never taken your class outdoors for a lesson, or you are looking for inspiration around the basics - moving to the new environment, helping children focus on the task, making the best...0 CommentsComment on Facebook