How to Introduce Yourself as a Natural Teacher without holding back
How to Introduce Yourself as a Natural Teacher without Holding Back When people ask you,” What do you do?” Do you ever dread or avoid answering, “I am a Natural Teacher” simply because you can’t or...
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What It Takes To Create Extraordinary Outdoor Experiences in Urban Settings
What It Takes To Create Extraordinary Outdoor Experiences in Urban Settings The magic word is BOUNDARIES! Are you a teacher that teaches in an urban setting? Do you ever dread taking kids outdoors...
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Music Outdoors: Garden Songs & Signs
MUSIC OUTDOORS Garden Songs & Signs A wonderful outdoor adventure with music & words! Can you create a song & dance with these words?
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A NEW SIGN for the Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab
A NEW SIGN for the Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab Outdoor Checkers Compost Kitchen Bee Hive
View ArticleTeaching in the Dirt: Becoming A Natural Teacher E-Course!
E-COURSE OPEN! Teaching in the Dirt: Becoming A Natural Teacher Class officially starts on September 5 with your first Garden Note.
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5 Reasons to add Sedum Plants to your Outdoor Classrooms
5 Reasons to add Sedum Plants to your Outdoor Classroom We are having a drought here in Massachusetts and the plants thriving in my Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab are the Sedum plants. So I have...
View ArticleOur Community of Outdoor Classrooms
Our Community of Outdoor Classrooms Have you ever wanted to “shadow” an Outdoor Classroom? Or been curious to know if there are any Outdoor Classrooms in your area? Are you a garden coordinator that...
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A Welcome Garden
A WELCOME GARDEN CHANGING PLANTS WITH THE SEASONS Are you a garden coordinator preparing for your first group of kids to come to your Outdoor Classroom? What is the first thing your children will see?...
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5 Easy Garden Elements
5 Easy Garden Elements to add to any Outdoor Classroom A Baby Step Garden Challenge Do you ever get overwhelmed when you look at your outdoor space and think, “Where do I start? How can I make this...
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Growing Food from Kitchen Scraps
Growing Food from Kitchen Scraps Growing food and eating nutritionally is all about taking baby steps toward creating change. Can we grow food from our kitchen scraps? This week I started an experiment...
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What Makes a Great Mud Kitchen?
What makes a Great Mud Kitchen? 6 Elements for Exploring Mud Kitchen Play 1. LOOSE PARTS The Children’s Place in Andover, MA 2. CHILD SIZE PLACE TO WORK The Children’s Place in Andover, MA 3. REAL...
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Teaching Children about Pollination
Teaching Children about Pollination Bee’s Added to Endangered Species List What would happen if there were no bees or butterflies to pollinate our flowers? “Bees perform a task that is vital to the...
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October 2016 Spotlight Garden
October 2016 Spotlight Garden Welcome to Outdoor Classrooms Garden of the Month. From backyards to schoolyards, we want to find the Outdoor Classrooms, Children’s Gardens & Community Programs that...
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The Essence of a Cardboard Box
The Essence of a Cardboard Box A couple of weeks ago, I sat in the pickup line at my son’s school and observed a young girl bringing a refrigerator size box home from school. I observed her father...
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Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab is recognized as a Certified Wildlife Habitat
LET’S CELEBRATE! Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab is recognized as a Certified Wildlife Habitat Yup! You guessed it! The Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab is now a Certified Wildlife Habitat! FOOD: Bird...
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MATH OUTDOORS: Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical
MATH OUTDOORS: Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical What is more scary? A Symmetrical face or Asymmetrical face. Want to learn more about how to use MATH OUTDOORS? Check out the professional development...
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Creating Outdoor PLAY Spaces
Creating Outdoor PLAY Spaces How do children express their ideas? Where do children PLAY? What is PLAY to children? How can we inspire thinking for diverse learners? The dictionary defines play as, ”...
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Tom Bedard’s Framework for Creating Spaces for Play
THE MUD KITCHEN & Tom Bedard’s Framework for Creating Spaces for Play Observing children and how they use space is incredibly fascinating to me. Outdoor Mud Kitchens are especially interesting...
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Math Outdoors with Measuring Sticks
Math Outdoors with Measuring Sticks 5 Easy Steps There are so many different things to do with sticks. Children love to measure things and calculating how large or small things are. Today we are going...
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Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab hosts first Workshop
Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab hosts first Workshop There is a lot to Celebrate! I am so excited to be opening up the Outdoor Classrooms Learning Lab for retreats, half day trainings, and/or 2-hour...
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