Outdoor school

Pre-K, kindergarten and first-grade aged children show up to Woodsong Forest School ready to learn. Rather than sneakers, they wear hiking boots. Instead of pencils, they carry magnifying glasses.

Learn how to design and build an outdoor classroom. Discover furniture options, budgeting tips, and essential services to create a functional and inspiring learning space.

Outdoor learning is a great way to connect with nature and have fun. Forest School activities can incorporate art, craft, science, sensory play, and s

What do you do with a low-income school, a few donated garden boxes, and no funding for plants or supplies? To this question, teachers Debbie Rutledge-Lockyear and Janet White’s response was confident. You make it work. When they received the garden boxes, the teachers began dreaming of creating a community garden where they could give their […]

“There are some great benefits to teaching and learning in an outdoor setting.” ~ Professor Lisa Greer Washington and Lee’s newly constructed outdoor classroom opened for use at the beginning…

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The Out School is designed to explore a new design vocabulary for pre-primary schools. The aesthetics, spatial planning and the architectural detailing is a direct response to the constraints that revolved around this project.

Looking for fun outdoor games for kids? Here is a list of fun and natural outside and backyard activities that are free for you, your toddlers, and preschoolers. Get outside and play!

Outdoor Classrooms provide a place for children to connect to nature. With so many areas where children are told "no" to the diverse ways they want to interact with nature, outdoor classrooms are often a "yes" place. Yes, please dig in the dirt. Yes, please dig with the log pieces. Yes, please climb on these fallen logs. I was introduced to the Nature Explore outdoor classroom concept as we developed a natural playscape at a local nature center. This research based process helped reign in…