Module 3 – Outdoor learning

Articles

Natural Learning Initiative. Benefits of Connecting Children with Nature: Why Naturalize Outdoor Learning Environments. North Carolina State University, 2012.

Activities

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

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.

Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik: Lots of short videos with the topic: vegetable, growing, using herbs for Kindergarten pedagogues. Link: http://v.agrarumweltpaedagogik.at/category/wildkraeuter-und-wildobst-im-kindergarten/19 and http://v.agrarumweltpaedagogik.at/category/saeen-pflanzen-amp-ernten-im-kindergarten/18

Resource list:

Medienkindergarten Wien; Case studies and tools for kindergarten pedagogues with focus on exploring nature by using new media. Link:

American Society of Landscape Architects, Health Benefits of Nature, 2018

Video

Agrinido L'Orto dei Pulcini Organic farm and kindergarten in Italy.

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