Games, Ideas & Activities for
Learning Outside the Primary Classroom
By Paul Barron
December 2009
Pearson Education
ISBN: 9781408225608
176 pages
$42.50 Paper Original
Description
With outdoor education is resurfacing as a recommended method for teachers to use,this book offers ideas and activities to help teachers bring the outdoors into their teaching.These ideas for learning outside the normal classroom environment offer inspiration to new and experienced teachers alike by suggesting practical and adaptable ideas for use in many areas of the curriculum and daily school life. Practical Ideas, Games and Activities for LearningOutside the Primary Classroom is a resource that every primary teacher will treasure, enabling them to add a sparkle to any lesson.
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Outdoor Learning and Organisation
Learning Outdoors Safely
Outdoor Classroom
Outdoor Kit Bag
Teaching Outdoor Tips
The Countryside Rules
Nature Log
Chapter 2: Art & DT
Camping Creations
Animal Feeders
Animal Masks
Kite Making
Leaf Rubbing
Living Willow Structures
Mirror Making
Nature Collage
Nature Mobile
Nature Photography
Nature Sculptures
Outdoor Chair
Seasons Pictures
Shelter Making
Sticky Pictures
The Big Picture
Wind Chime
Withy Sculptures
Chapter 3: English
Drama Garden
Nature Guide Book
Outdoor Poetry
Outdoor Storytime
Post It
Chapter 4: Humanities
Anemometer
Farm Visit
Making Tracks
Nature Treasure Hunt
Orienteering
Rain Gauge
Weather Report
Wind Vane
Woodland Layers
Chapter 5: Maths
Outdoor Patterns
Buried Treasure
Compass Jumping
How Old is your Tree?
Leafy Lesson
Ordering Nature
Tall Trees
Time Out
Weather Analysis
Chapter 6: Music
Nature Music
Shaker Maker
Sound Walk
Chapter 7: PSHE & Citizenship
All Aboard
Blindfold Journeys
Journey Stick
Outdoor Circle Games
Parachute Ball Games
Parachute Movement Ganes
Pass the Stick
The Memory Game
Outdoor Improvements
Chapter 8: Science
Acorn Planting
Animal Partners
Animal Tracks
Bird’s Nest
Learning about Leaves
Planting and Growing
Sweep Net
What am I?
What’s Underneath?
Index of Activities
Key features:
- Over 150 activities aimed at learning outside the classroom
- A supplement download site containing forms and templates that teachers can print off and use in their classroom
- Referenced to the National Curriculum
- Individual, group and whole class activities
- Variations section to show how the activities can be used in different ways and with different groups of students
- Cross-curricular links to inspire creativity across the primary curriculum
- Reduces the time spent planning, and fit easily into a busy timetable
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