Breen, the education director at The Escondido Creek Conservancy, has been providing outdoor education in San Diego County for the past eight years and is the recipient of the Olivenhain Municipal ...

Forward-thinking schools from Portland, Maine, to Santa Cruz, California, created outdoor classrooms as a way to safely and cost-effectively bring more kids back to school. After a year of taking ...

Outdoor learning offers a chance for students to pause, breathe, and reconnect with themselves in a peaceful environment—giving them the tools to handle life's stressors in a healthier way. 4.

In Louv’s 2011 book, "The Nature Principle," he argues that outdoor learning works because it “demands better use of the senses.” He cites an 18-month study of 800 military personnel, ...

Gateway to Science has opened its brand new Outdoor Explorium, giving families a hands-on way to learn about science while ...

The concept, a Sustainable Outdoor Learning Environment (SOLE), made the most of our regional climate’s position as both a sunny locale and a constant reminder about the need for sustainability. It ...

A number of New York schools have existing outdoor learning programs, some of them inspired by European models. Brooklyn New School, with a diverse student body, offers shore school, forest school ...

And often, the elements pose a stiff challenge to outdoor learning. Many outdoor schools loosely follow the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Child Care Weather Watch guidelines, which suggest ...

Outdoor learning is a flexible, evidence-based strategy that educators can employ to conduct the same lesson they were planning to do indoors, or it can involve incorporating the local area to ...

This must include outdoor, hands-on learning. — Tom Ackerman, Annapolis The writer is vice president for environmental education at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Just about half of the city’s public schools have been approved to conduct some form of outdoor learning this fall, the city Department of Education said Friday.. The DOE’s Outdoor Learning ...