Taking learning outdoors – Secondary schools.

How to take indoor teaching outdoors.

Nature Days can provide expert advice and training for taking your learning outdoors.
Reduce the pressure on your indoor areas by using the school grounds for teaching.

Many primary schools, especially early years, use the outdoors for teaching but less so in secondary.

Dawn Thomas is a qualified secondary science and geography teacher. She can provide training on using outdoor learning for teaching the science and geography secondary curriculum or any other outdoor learning provision.

Webinar, outdoor or in-school training can be undertaken which is bespoke to meet your school’s needs, be it;
Health and Wellbeing,
First steps to teaching outdoors,
Creating effective outdoor spaces,
Delivery curriculum content outdoors.

Price stated does not include travel expenses.

For more details contact Nature days naturedays@reynoldston.com07779950126

Important Information

Ability Level(s): Inset
Relevant Subject(s): Science and technology AOLE, Maths and numeracy AOLE, Language, Literacy and communication AOLE, Humanities AOLE, Expressive arts AOLE, Health and Wellbeing AOLE
Terrain:
Distance: miles
Cost: £450
Maximum places: 35

Equipment Required

This field trip has the following curriculum links

Geography: Geographical Skills

Study the physical world: the processes and landforms of coasts or rivers. KS3.

: Health and Well-being

Opportunities to be physically active.

Taking measured risk.

Participate in team activities.

Participate outdoor learning to support physical health and well-being.

Team building.

Make ethical considerations.

Problem solving.

Geography: Humanities

Experience

Exploring and investigating the world.
Enthuse and inspire pupils to explore, discover and question.
Opportunities to enquire and learn outdoors.
Understand how the natural world works.
Social action, their responsibility for the environment,
Explore physical features of the environment, changing environments,
Sustainability, and their impact on the environment.

Skills:

Undertaking enquires.
Data-handling,
Map skills.

Science: Interdependence of Organisms

Through fieldwork, the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment. KS2.

Science: Science and Technology

Enquiry process, Using technology,
The effect of human activity on the environment.
Design in real life,
Taking measured risk,
Problem solving including engineering,
Using tools and sensors,
Materials properties.
Food chains, exploring habitats, sampling, adaptation, parts of the plant,
Measuring motion, investigate forces, waves,
Skills – measuring, observing, explaining, presenting data, classifying, evaluating

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