Module 3 – Outdoor learning

Resources

Code of Practice document - Code of practice document, advising teachers and others who organise outdoor visits for young children.

Pre-visit checklist - A useful checklist document for teachers to use when undertaking their initial administrative visit to the farm.

Toolkit - Early Years Gardening and Nature Exploration Toolkit.

Get Growing - Get Growing - Advice on growing in early years settings produced by the Growing Schools project.

Getting started with plants - Getting started with plants - Advice on growing in early years settings produced by Garden Organic.

Outdoor Learning - Advice on outdoor learning produced by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.

Growing Schools- Advice on outdoor learning produced by the Growing Schools project.

Growing schools curriculum links - Outdoor learning curriculum links document produced by the Growing Schools projects

Garden Organic curriculum links - Outdoor learning curriculum links document produced by Garden Organic.

Outdoor learning activities - Some ideas for early years outdoor learning.

Sustaining farm links - A short document detiling ways in which repeat farm visits can become embedded into the kindergarten / school calendar. The document offers advice of paying for transport and visits.

Videos

Agrinido L'Orto dei Pulcini Organic farm and kindergarten in Italy talks about the kindergarten on her farm.

Larisa Lupini from the Agrinido L'Orto dei pulcini organic farm in Italy, talks about hosting school visits on her farm.

Antona Medveda kindergarten in Kamnik, Slovenia. 

Growing areas and sensory garden experiences for young children.

Mapping sounds on the farm.

Feeding lambs on the farm.

Collecting eggs on the farm.