The Carrie Murray Nature Center’s outdoor preschool in Baltimore is licensed and uses a park building for the times when children are napping, eating or need to use the bathroom. Program ...

The outdoor adventure isn’t a field trip for these preschoolers but part of their normal routine. The children are enrolled in the Chicago Botanic Garden Nature Preschool and spend most of the ...

In Southern California, ENC Nature Preschool operates year-round, and the outdoor setting kept the school from closing during the state’s strict pandemic lockdowns. Ms. Sener, a preschool ...

Carrie Murray Nature Center’s outdoor preschool uses an existing park building to meet licensing requirements and offer a full-day program. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report “I found a very ...

a licensed preschool and kindergarten program that opened this year at Clark Farm in Carlisle. “Prior to the pandemic, we were striving for more outdoor education models,” Hull said.

In recent years, the number of outdoor preschool programs in the United States has rapidly increased. In Washington, the Natural Start Alliance estimates there are about 90 preschools where ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo’s Early Explorers Preschool, an outdoor early-education program, has received its official license from the state to become the first licensed outdoor preschool in California.