Spending time outdoors and engaging in active play has all kinds of benefits for young children. It encourages gross motor skill development, helps improve coordination and balance, and can contribute ...

Central Elementary on Friday debuted the school's new outdoor learning lab. The project turned an empty courtyard into a space that features a canopy, picnic tables and other seating options, ...

In 4-H, we believe youth learn best by doing, but in this technology and media-driven age, it can be difficult to get young people outside to explore and learn from their natural environment. By ...

Modesto City Schools is located in Northern California, and we receive more than 260 days of sunlight annually. While the sunshine typically provides ideal climate conditions, it can also be a ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - With help from Waco nonprofit, Voice, Waco ISD’s Mountainview Elementary students are learning outside of the classroom in a new outdoor learning environment. “We provided an area ...

Fairfield Primary School begins work on a new sustainable outdoor classroom, funded by the Benny Walker Charitable Trust, to ...

SALISBURY — Everyone has fond memories of spending time outdoors as a child, but the life skills developed while playing in the backyard are not as readily apparent. An early education center in ...

SPACE AT WHARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. HOW MANY ARE IN EACH DROP WEIGHT? SOMETIMES WE MAY BE DOING OUTDOOR LEARNING RELATED TO NATURE. DOING SCIENCE TYPE ACTIVITIES, LEARNING ABOUT PLANTS AND INSECTS.

Paired up middle school students – one of them blindfolded, the other leading the way – stumble through a field, around tangled manzanita and over thick underbrush to find a tree, their tree. In a ...

There aren’t desks at Angel Oak Nature Academy. There aren’t metal chairs, pencils or plastic toys, either. When you drive up to the secluded Okatie property, there isn’t even a building. Instead, ...

AMES — Prairie Rivers of Iowa, in partnership with the Living Roadway Trust Fund, is kicking off a new grant initiative around building outdoor learning environments all across Iowa. This new grant ...