Summit Notes: Educating Educators in the Value of Outdoor Learning…
October 25, 2007Summit Notes: How do we get teachers and administrators to buy into nature education programming?
October 25, 2007Participants: Brian Rutti, Marc Behrendt, Mary Vance, Marilyn Weiler, April Hoy, Irene Lindelow, Allison Boehler-Graves, Sharon Tinianow, Al Parker
Science concepts/how to teach with experiences.
Researching and substantiating Louv’s work.
Differences in children exposed to, and not exposed to, the outdoors.
Teachers need to:
1) Inspire curiosity and wonder
2) Lead students to experience
3) Take advantage of the flexibility in the science curriculum up to fourth grade
IDEAS: Adopt-a-tree; experiential writing
What do kids learn in nature? Free play?
– Cycles
– Relationships between things
– Confidence
– Creativity
– How to deal with downtime
– Construction
– Physical skills
– Physical confidence
– Concepts
