The Explorations Academy uses the new outdoor space twice a week as part of its independent education for middle and high school students.

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Mackenzie Nichols always dreamed that her children would go to the same school she’d attended: Peterborough Elementary, a public school of about 250 students in a small, outdoorsy community in ...

Angela Ninde stood at a whiteboard to teach a lesson on odd and even numbers. Her students were rolling sets of dice and adding up the totals to understand the number patterns. It was a typical 5th ...

Tompkins Cortland Community College has received an $8,000 grant to turn a furnished structure near its athletics facility into an outdoor learning space for students and the community. The Dryden ...

What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

When children step out of their traditional elementary school classroom to learn outdoors, they experience a wide range of benefits. Outdoor learning is fun, active and fosters creativity and problem ...

This opinion column about outdoor learning was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger ...

Nine years ago, when my oldest son was in kindergarten, his 6.5-hour school day included just 15 minutes of outdoor recess. That paltry interval was typical of our Minnesota public-school district.

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. Many outdoor education programs in California have shut ...

Outdoor education – which takes students outside the classroom and onto sports fields, wilderness trails and waterways – is a central tenet of a private school experience. When young people step away ...

Times have changed radically since the 1980s, when environmental education and outdoor pursuits were occasional offerings by external specialist providers. The publication of Curriculum for Excellence ...