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Outdoor Nature Based Core Competencies.pdf

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What resources are you using for outdoor and/or nature-based learning?  

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What resources are you using for outdoor and/or nature-based learning?  

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We believe that children learn best when they are engaged in their environment through play and discovery. Young children are instinctively motivated and curious when the appropriate environment is presented to them. MSCC provides children with opportunities to explore the world they live in (through music, art, science, and everyday interaction) and to make choices to create an experience. Exploring choices, thoughts, and feelings surrounding the experience is the foundation of our curriculum. At Mountain Sprouts, we support our students as they build:

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Philosophy - Mountain Sprouts Children's Community

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We believe that children learn best when they are engaged in their environment through play and discovery. Young children are instinctively motivated and curious when the appropriate environment is presented to them. MSCC provides children with opportunities to explore the world they live in (through music, art, science, and everyday interaction) and to make choices to create an experience.

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What space do you have control over?
Who is on your team?
How can you apply creativity and innovation?
What changes are realistic?

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Wearthy | The playful beginnings of human flourishing.

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Wearthy are the number one advocates of play, providing bespoke natural playgrounds that ignite creativity and curiosity in children. Led by playground designer and outdoor educator, Lukas Ritson and his wife Vanessa.

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Gardening Activity Guide 6_1_2021 (1).pdf

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Our Proud Heritage. Take It Outside: A History of Nature-Based Education

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In this column, we put renewed interest in outdoor learning into context by reviewing the past 200 years of ideas and practices in nature-based education for young children.

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Learning about nature, weather, seasons.

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Typically outdoor play is very authentic and realistic. Children have lots of opportunity to use their imagination.

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Typically outdoor play is very authentic and realistic. Children have lots of opportunity to use their imagination.

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Being messy!  Experiencing all of the senses!

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The students are able to learn about the world around them.  If they are able to be outside in nature, they can move around vs. sitting at a desk.

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The students are able to learn about the world around them.  If they are able to be outside in nature, they can move around vs. sitting at a desk.

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*Planter Box with access to water
*Curved Pathway and Trikes
*A place for students to play with bark and rocks (this is not allowed on the playground currently)

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Paint with the outdoor items

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Rock box within the classroom

Or putting rocks in a sand table with the option of opening and closing.

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The video articulates the connection to self care that nature supports for children, but it also does this for teachers! To be able to get out of a building and do similar things outside is great (reading, coloring, etc).

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Bring the pumpkin patch into the classroom - different colors, textures, with and without the vine.

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Fill a sensory table with snow

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Fill a sensory table or tub with leaves

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Bring the orchard industry into the classroom - also visits to the orchard.

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Art with leaves - painting the leaves, rub art with the leaves.

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Teaching the next generation

Our Salmon in the Classroom program gives students a real-life, hands-on experience with the largest of all Pacific salmon, Chinook (King) salmon. Watch as Matilda, a Salmon in the Classroom graduate, reflects on her experience of having salmon in her classroom.

Follow the lifecycle of a Chinook salmon as it makes its way to the ocean and back.

The Columbia River is legendary for producing salmon. Salmon are called "anadromous fish," because they migrate from fresh water to the ocean where they mature and then return to fresh water to spawn the next generation. Learn what Grant PUD is doing to help salmon as they journey to the ocean as young fry and return as mature adults to spawn the next generation of salmon.

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Our Salmon in the Classroom program gives students a real-life, hands-on experience with the largest of all Pacific salmon, Chinook (King) salmon. Watch as Matilda, a Salmon in the Classroom graduate, reflects on her experience of having salmon in her classroom. The Columbia River is legendary for producing salmon.

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Field-tested materials that support children's interests and creativity

This page is divided into areas-just like an outdoor classroom

music & movement area

nature art area

water area

gardening area

gathering area

dirt digging area

educator & family resources

fencing, flooring & construction

building area

climbing & dynamic equipment

messy material & storage

sand area

tools for close observation

signs & entry feature

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Natural Outdoor Classroom Products - Nature Explore Program

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Field-tested materials that support children's interests and creativity SHOP BY CATEGORY This page is divided into areas-just like an outdoor classroom music & movement area Marimba, Rain Sticks, SlapDrums... view all building area Tree Blocks, Discovery Tables, Mini Bricks... view all climbing & dynamic equipment Log Steps, Balance Beams, Wooden Curved Board...

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OSPI Considerations for Outdoor Learning

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OSPI Considerations for Outdoor Learning

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What to learn dozens of outdoor classroom ideas?

This post includes 75 fun and intriguing activities for the Montessori Outdoor Classroom. Dr. Montessori believed that the outdoors is a natural extension of the classroom, that there should be harmony between the indoor and outdoor learning environments. The outdoors is the ideal sensorial experience.

What is So Important about Outdoor Education?

A child discovers the world through his senses in the most holistic way. Beyond the organic development through seeing, smelling, hearing, feeling, and, yes, I am going to write it, tasting in the great outdoors, nature brings ripe lessons in botany, zoology, and STEM in the most basic, pure ways.

Anne Botsford Comstock, the author of one of my favorite books, Handbook of Nature Study, emphasized observation as the foundation of outdoor education:

Ideas for the Outdoor Classroom

Key Tenets of Montessori Outdoor Education

So, what are the key tenets of a Montessori outdoor education? The same as the key tenets of the indoor classroom! A few key tenets that come to my mind include:

Child-Led

Well Prepared Environment

Teacher as Guide

Liberty within wide parameters

Intrinsic Motivation

Observe the Child

"A child, than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature." ~ Dr. Montessori

Montessori Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Practical Life Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Sensorial Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Language Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Patterns in nature with rocks and leaves

Stacking

Make a variation of the red rods with sticks

Make a variation of the pink tower with rocks

Go on a Geometric Solids Hunt

Identifying Smells

Listening Walk

Texture Hunt

Match Textures

Color Hunt

Shape Hunt

2D and 3D Shape Hunt

Series of "Isolation of Quality" Observations with a blindfold, earplugs, nose plug, etc.

Have a conversation while on a nature walk

Storytelling from a group of items

Choose a tree, tell its story

Go on a noun/verb/adjective/preposition hunt

Grain of sand sequencing

Texture hunt

Letter creation challenge with sticks

Proposition work with bodies or objects

Trace letters in the dirt

Go on a sound hunt

"Just one thing" activity

Command Games using Chalk (e.g. write "hop" and have the child "hop")

Parts of speech game (e.g. when I say a noun, hop on one foot. when I say an adjective, sit down.")

Math Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Non-standard measures of plant growth

Counting seeds

Make a hundred board from pebbles or rocks

Leaf symmetry

What's Missing? game

Estimation games with birds, trees, seeds, leaves, etc

Graphing nature items collected on a walk

Science & Engineering Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Geography Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Create your own natural history museum

Build simple machines from natural objects like sticks and rocks

Worm tower

Lifecycle Work

Plant seeds

Spin, climb, jump with one eye open

Take pulse before and after running, hopping, skipping, and walking

Shadow drawing over a day

Make a Sun Dial

Birdsong identification

Create a device to observe and measure wind direction & speed

Observe weather

Observe clouds

Make a discovery by taking a pond dip

Build with sticks & the natural materials

Build a dam

Study scat

Balance rocks

Art & Music Outdoor Classroom Ideas

Discuss animals in your area & their habitats

Migrators versus hibernators versus adaptors

Hours of daylight

Star Gazing

Study habitats

Land, air, & water

Visit various landforms or create mini landforms from natural materials

Collect, explore, & study Rocks & Minerals in your area

Helpful Resources for the Outdoor Classroom

Nature Collage

Petal painting

Dreamcatchers

Wands

"Just one thing" artwork

Observational drawings

Create a song

Dance to nature's sounds

Study the sounds and rhythms of nature

Make musical instruments from natural objects

Rhythmic movements like galloping, sidestepping, etc.

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Outdoor Classroom Ideas: 75+ Rock Star Ideas for Your Learning

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