Importantly, this doesn’t require a full lesson and building short, nature based mindful moments into everyday classroom routines is a simple and effective place to start.

These small pauses can nurture resilience, self-awareness and a deeper connection to both themselves and the natural world.

Please read the Teacher Resource Guide for more information on how to use this in your class and how to connect it to curriculum.

Along the trail, students are encouraged to experience the sights, sounds, smells and feelings that nature provides.

Below is a list of links across a variety of curriculum areas that can be applied to these nature based learning experiences:

• Health and Physical Education

  • Making healthy and safe choices

  • Making active choices

  • Investigate different ways of moving their bodies

    
    

• Science

  • Inquiry Skills

  • Asking questions and making predictions

  • Recording and representing observation

  • Biological Sciences

  • Living and non-living things

  • Interactions between living things and their environment

    
    

• HASS (Geography)

  • Observing and describing natural features of places

  • Identifying how environments support living things

  • Considering how people interact with and care for environments

    
    

• English

  • Topic specific vocabulary

  • Creating informative, reflective or emotive texts

    
    

• General Capabilities

  • Critical and Creative Thinking – asking questions and exploring ideas

  • Literacy – recording observations in journals

  • Numeracy – measuring, counting and identifying patterns and collecting data

  • Sustainability – understanding ecosystems and caring for environments

  • Personal and Social Capability – reflecting on wellbeing in nature