At The British International School Bratislava, Early Years children experience outdoor learning come rain or shine. Outdoor learning is a valued part of the curriculum and the impact on young ...

Paraphrasing Louv, nature schoolteacher Angela Garcia notes, “America is completely deficient in Vitamin N: Vitamin Nature.” Garcia is the co-director of True Roots Nature School Program, a Santa Cruz ...

Spending time outdoors and engaging in active play has all kinds of benefits for young children. It encourages gross motor skill development, helps improve coordination and balance, and can contribute ...

Paired up middle school students – one of them blindfolded, the other leading the way – stumble through a field, around tangled manzanita and over thick underbrush to find a tree, their tree. In a ...

Students at High Mountain Institute, based in Leadville, Colorado, do much of their learning on expeditions into the wilderness. Source: Courtesy: High Mountain Institute Students learn best when they ...

When I was a kid, my parents constantly told me to go play outside. I lived in a town where kids knocked on each other’s doors to ask if their friends could “come out and play,” rode their bikes in ...

It’s morning at the ENC Nature Preschool in Newport Beach, California, and 72 preschoolers are rolling around in a mud pit to make mud pies and “stone soup.” After hosing off and changing into clean ...

In 2020 and 2021, to avoid the spread of the covid-19 virus, we had to stay at home as much as possible. This home-away-from-home period had an effect on us in the years that followed. Going outside ...

SAN ANTONIO – Students at Bowden Academy in the San Antonio Independent School District are embracing outdoor learning and are now pushing to create unique spaces at their school. Fifth grade student ...