Teaching During Covid-19 Lockdown: Outdoor education and breaks
Teaching During Covid-19 Lockdown: Outdoor education and breaks
The digital tools and staying in are not the only ways to learn. Primary school class teacher Ulpu Siponen shows how you can take the lessons outdoors. She also talks about the importance of breaks – both teachers and students.
Outdoor education materials for distance teaching and live school teaching
Outdoor education:
A Guidbebook, game cards and species cards in English (very good)
Fun activities in nature, in distance teaching and at school, a nice booklet
https://wwf.fi/app/uploads/4/k/p/3hnn6xpr62uqspyz6e9izm/wwf_nature_adventure_eng_web.pdf?filena
me=Nature%20Adventures%21.pdf
Small exercises, easy to do:
A small mathematics exercise outdoors: Build maths-artwork
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdXRkb29ycGVkYWdvZ3l8
Z3g6NThmMjU4Nzc4MGUzYTMxYQ
Build the same: works also on the phone
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdXRkb29ycGVkYWdvZ3l8
Z3g6NzMyNGM5NDI5MGM0ZGU5MQ
Different kinds of ”bingo” exercises at home and outdoors for smaller pupils, for distance or school
teaching
Small physical exercises in the forest with alphabets (on the first page in Finnish, on the second in
English)
https://www.lahti.fi/PalvelutSite/PerusopetusSite/Documents/LUONTOMetsa%CC%88kuntorataAakkosetFI
EN.pdf
Outdoor mathematics: Measurements and understanding geometry. Some exercises suit for distance
teaching, some for school
https://www.hyvinkaa.fi/globalassets/kasvatus-ja-koulutus/matematiikkaa-
luonnossa/liitteet/matikkapolut/mathmatics_track1.pdf
Go and find… Species learning environment Pinkka
https://fmnh-ws-
prod.it.helsinki.fi/pinkka/?fbclid=IwAR1nsTet8h3fkYpA1iO8Vmmyjo7hPmcFgI7KNqxE3p6nlqgVZ7iSkM38Aw
A#/
Outdoor education when back at school:
An adventure in the kingdom of water:
https://wwf.fi/app/uploads/8/q/n/nn044xexruce2x7jwgt0cl/vesiseikkailu_en.pdf
Baltic Sea –path, 10 stops in Finnish, Swedish and English
https://wwf.fi/app/uploads/n/y/s/hnjtkcvhn3kikruprxx5zdh/pandanpolku_a3_tulostetasoinen.pdf
https://wwf.fi/opettajille/opetusmateriaalit/?id=wwf-trail
Answer-sheet:
https://wwf.fi/app/uploads/s/p/h/by7e2q5evbboparka3k6eyf/suunnistustenvastauslappu_x4_a4.pdf
A handbook/articles about outdoor education and integration of immigrants (exercices on p.33-44)
https://old.liu.se/ikk/linc/presentation/1.662115/Handbook.pdf
A handbook of outdoor education activities, made by a Swedish nature school, lots of nature games
http://www.nynashamnsnaturskola.se/pdfHtm/ecological_outdoor_games2011.pdf One example of the b
book: Use your senses:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdXRkb29ycGVkYWdvZ3l8
Z3g6NWUxOGNlNGQyMTNjNzEwNA
The biggest outdoor education seminar in Finland, held outdoors on 15-17.6.2020
https://www.ulos2020.fi/en/home-en/
Outdoor mathematics, a single exercise
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdXRkb29ycGVkYWdvZ3l8
Z3g6NGE0Zjk3YTQ3YTFkODA0OQ
Outdoor mathematics, several exercises, see the link in the first group
