On any given day, you might find students from Centreville Elementary attending class at one of the school’s 17 outdoor learning spaces, taking a nature walk, checking on the trout they’ve grown from ...

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 ...

Each year, more than 10,000 students and families participate in hands-on outdoor science learning at Sierra Nevada Journeys ...

Maine students are kelp farming in Belfast, making honey to study pollinator health in Bath and studying why the Bloomfield School in Skowhegan is home to one of the largest colonies of endangered ...

On Wednesday morning at an elementary campus in the foothills of the Hill Country, environmental science teacher Isaac Esquivel tackled the subject of invasive species with a class of fifth graders.

Paired up middle school students – one of them blindfolded, the other leading the way – stumble through a field, around tangled manzanita and over thick underbrush to find a tree, their tree. In a ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room At a forest school, the roof is the bright blue sky, a cluster of ladybugs flying through the air can turn into a science lesson and the fog ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A ceremonial signing event was held at the University of Maine on Jan. 19, ...

The University of Maine Extension is launching the Outdoor School for All program for thousands of Maine students in grades four through eight. “Research has reinforced that outdoor learning benefits ...

A collaboration between the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center and the Friends of Hopelands & Rye Patch uses the historic garden as an outdoor classroom where students from kindergarten through ...

One might be tempted to think that an outdoors-based school would cancel classes just as much, if not more, than its brick-and-mortar counterparts because of inclement weather. But AdventureMe’s ...

Spending time outdoors and engaging in active play has all kinds of benefits for young children. It encourages gross motor skill development, helps improve coordination and balance, and can contribute ...