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Nature Classroom Activities for Students
- 1. Nature in the Classroom
Editor's Notes
- Nature in the classroom. Bringing outside in.
- More time spend in the natural environment (indoors or outdoors) can reduce symptoms of attention disorders, improve cognitive functioning, while enhancing creativity, socialization, and mental and physical health. adding vitamin "N" to your classroom here. Get creative!
- getting students interacting with Nature include exercise and promoting curiosity. The Brain Rules that we've been discussing in class stress that both of these elements are essential to the learning process. Testing their balance, enouraging creativity, building forts!
- Outdoor schools/programs are not always feasible. Nor is it always possible or ideal to get students outside. However, this shouldn’t limit conventional teaching methods from being integrated with environmental education when students are indoors. I bleieve this learning give students the best opportunities to learn about themselves and the world around them. adding vitamin "N" to your classroom here. Get creative
- Educators who share nature with their students are more likely to retain their enthusiasm for teaching.
- Teachers must be motivated to take on the extra work of collecting items themselves or reaching out to the community for support.
- The logistics of how to make outdoor programs work in a school setting are directly related to gaining support from the community. Limitations push you to reach out into the community, and you will both benefit!. Nature can teach, not only our students, but the entire community. It goes beyond curriculum goals, concepts, facts, or figures and teaches about living and learning in the context of our place.
- So what does Nature in the Classroom look like? It could be as simple as building a replica of a habitat with natural materials, using your senses to describe objects collected outside .
- Or as complex as having students test their creativity, building their own outdoor classroom by developing a Classroom Nature Discovery Center. transforming your indoor classroom into one that is conducive to "outdoor learning".
- planting "seeds" of nature in the classroom, could become something amazing, providing an abundance of learning opportunities and FUN Think outside (or inside) the box and get your students engaged in the natural world around them and with each other.