OUTDOOR LEARNING: INTEGRATED LEARNING
At ISD, we like to think of the great outdoors as a natural extension of the classroom. Outdoor Learning is not exclusively about learning ‘outdoor’ skills; it also offers new contexts for students to explore mathematical, scientific, literacy, and artistic concepts.
ISD’s classrooms are dynamic spaces that promote inquiry and collaboration and, together with Outdoor Learning, offer a learning environment that can flexibly meet our learners’ diverse needs.
The unit of inquiry (UoI) is the centrepoint of the PYP curriculum. Outdoor learning teachers work collaboratively with classroom teachers to design and plan learning activities that are stimulating and provocative, and that encourage authentic and sophisticated inquiry throughout the UoI. In this way, we make learning relevant, fun, and inspiring for every child.Carol Breedlove
Outdoor Learning Teacher
ISD’s classrooms are dynamic spaces that promote inquiry and collaboration and, together with Outdoor Learning, offer a learning environment that can flexibly meet our learners’ diverse needs.
Most of the Outdoor Learning units we do together with our UoI [Unit of Inquiry]. For me, it helps when you learn something in class first, and then you have the freedom to do different things with what you’ve learned in Outdoor Learning. You can work with tools, or build things, or use different materials. We’re talking about simple machines in this unit. So, if the machine you want to build is a catapult, you probably wouldn’t do that inside; it’d be a mess.
SKILLS
& TOOLS
LEARNING REAL WORLD SKILLS
NATURE &
WELLBEING
LEARNING TO CONNECT TO NATURE
PLAY-BASED
LEARNING
LEARNING THROUGH IMAGINATION
Skills and tools
