Outdoor Education Lets Us Discover Natural Wonders & Build Skills
What Is Outdoor Education?
Outdoor Education is a method of teaching a learning process in the outdoors for exploration and discovery about the environment using first-hand experience involving all courses of study.
Outdoor Education has 2 definition elements
A learning climate that takes place outdoors.
A method of teaching a learning process (problem solving).
What Outdoor Education Is and Isn't :
could be a subject
is not a subject itself
is not a repeat of what is done in the classroom (math under some trees)
is not a substitute for the classroom
should be considered as an extension of the classroom
should be an active learning experience
could be a process or a method
is interdisciplinary
could be a setting (outdoors)
utilizes the outdoors to enrich learning
is person centered and community orientated
Other names for Outdoor Education:
Outdoor Education covers the different types of education that take place in the outdoors. These include:
Project Learning Tree This program uses the forest as a method to increase students' understanding of our environment.
Project WET Educating people about the most precious resource on our planet...water.
The National Association for Interpretation Professional association for those involved in the interpretative activities at parks, nature centers, and historical sites, etc.
