Outdoor Learning and the Curriculum: A professional development workshop for educators

This practical workshop demonstrates how the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority area of sustainability can be addressed while taking learning outdoors. The content draws on place-responsive pedagogies and nature connection practices which connect students to place and foster a care of the natural world. Workshop participants will: learn about the benefits of outdoor learning and how outdoor activities can be applied to learning areas including Science, English, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Arts experience a range of activities and tools that foster connection to place and grow children's ecological literacy - activities include 'sit spots', ‘the web of life’; nature journaling; the 'Council of all Beings' and more reflect with other participants on the activities experienced and consider ways to adapt or extend them for different groups of students or for different learning areas be introduced to 'nature names' - a practice that can be woven through units of work