Sharing Good Practice
Science and Technology
• Develop scientific enquiry: take a
walk around your site – what do you
notice? What questions can you
come up with? Can you design and
carry out an experiment to answer
them?
• Explore properties of materials,
finding natural materials with the
same properties as man-made
ones. Use these to create a product
with a purpose - a shelter, a small
raft, a new seating area
• Explore flight trajectories, speed,
weight and forces with PE or play
equipment
• Create interactive trails around the
site using GPS technology or QR
codes
What about shading?
• Make crayon or chalk rubbings of
different surfaces and features.
Alternatively, for a more tactile
experience, use aluminium foil. Try
and guess where different rubbings
were made.
• Carry out a biodiversity survey.
Compare different areas of your
site, or to off-site locations.
or
• Create an outdoor, ephemeral art
gallery, or a sculpture trail using
recycled materials
Look at adaptation of plants and
animals, including colour, movement,
feeding. Create your own creature
using air-drying clay and natural
materials and write a fact sheet for it.
• Design and create outdoor features
for the site, eg art wall, playground
markings, mosaics.
Collect natural materials and arrange
on card using dou ble-sided tape –
think about colour, shading, patterns,
size, natural and man-made materials.
Art and Design
• Make small pieces of different
coloured paper or card and
encourage pupils to find a match
outdoors. Which are easier to find?
Why? What are colours used for?
These are just a few suggestions, ideal
for the school site but also suitable for
other locations. In our next and final
article we will look at opportunities for
off-site outdoor learning, and consider
how these can be fully integrated into
a whole-school approach.
Anita is a Director of the outdoor learning consultancy Maximising Learning.
She has spent the last 25 years teaching ‘Outside the Classroom’, and works with
schools to help them explore and develop opportunities for outdoor learning,
embedding these in their curricula.
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