Outdoor Learning
Benefits of Outdoor Learning
Limitations of Outdoor Learning
Encourages negotiation
Which supports communication and language to flourish.
Theory linked to outdoor learning
Limitations of theory linked to outdoor learning
You get to explore and interact with a range of materials.
Freedom - gives children opportunity to be loud and boisterous.
Builds close friendships.
It is motivating for children to learn.
Experience different weathers and how to climitise towards them.
Sensory.
Weather
Safety and Risk
Funding
Space
Physcological resiliance
Staff Ratio's
Behaviour
Research suggests that the outdoors makes children happy.
Jarman (2008) reported that outdoor environments are preferred learning environments for children because they provide many opportunities to encourage communication.
Self-regulation
Team Work
Independencey
Wrapping children up in cotton wool.
If adults have a 'fear' or 'reluctancy' to going outdoors, it builds up a reluctancy for children to be outside in different weathers.
Positive influence on Mental Health - Provides freedom.
Experience - some children might live in a flat or have inactive care gives so they don't have opportunities to go outside.
Textures - physical development - uneven terrane.
Positively influences their sleep - less active children struggle to sleep because they don't have the best chemicals.
Bringing learning to life. Possibilities, looking at the great fire of London and then building the houses and then burning them down.
Positively inpact SEND needs - no limitations, they have their own limitations and they know how far to push it. Children can access them on their own levels.
Positive physical health - prevents obesity.
Push children out of their comfort zone - it can be build on or lessened on their abilities.
Problem solving.
Critically analyse with risk.
Do children think they are learning outdoors? Because they are not sat down 'learning' and it is based on what they enjoy.
Children with limited experience - defiant to go out.
Small play area.
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The outside world should be part of our classroom experience...the outdoors should be given the same value as outdoors" (Bottrill, 2018, 107
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