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Great Blogs
http://www.helpwithteaching.co.uk/
http://creativestarlearning.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.
blogspot.com/
Background Articles http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
D Sobel: Ecophobia
http://wisdomofhands.blogspot.com/
R Louv: Nature Defecit Disorder http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/
What Not To Teach http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/index.php
A Modern Rite Of Passage  
5 Critical Factors for Outdoor Teaching  
Outdoor Learning and natural play are hugely important aspects of the work in engagement. So many children are able to open up and express themselves outdoors in ways we don't tend to see in classrooms. If teachers can integrate outdoor experience into their class work, they find a renewed enthusiasm in their children - even in themselves. We all know that, if the children are motivated, excited by what we are doing, then we remember why we became teachers in the first place, and what it is about it that is so special!
McKinsey & Co 2007
S Biddulph: Nursery Care

 

 Teaching Resource Downloads
OLResearch Review 2004
http://www.foresteducation.org/src/forest_school_scotla_1259579559.pdf
Every Experience Matters 2008
A fantastic forest school set of resources - Good on the Scots!
Shifting Away From Nature
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/osmos/primary26.pdf
Interesting work sheet and follow up from Kew about plants and veggies.
 
Coping with ADD
 
 
Web Sites
Useful Books The Outdoor Classroom
Learning Outside the Classroom
Featured:
I Love My World

by Chris Holland 2009
Heart felt book by experienced and creative outdoor practitioner

Juliet Robertson's sites are also worth checking. She has a great set of extremely well thought through OL resources, including book lists and downloads, along with genuinely helpful advice.

Book List

Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids Guide: Lynn Brunelle 2007
Collection of simple scouting type camp-lore. Well indexed.

I Love Dirt 2008 and It’s A Jungle Out There 2011  
52 starters for outdoor activities

Forest Schools & Outdoor Learning in the Early Years: Sara Knight 2009
Good introduction to the Forest Schools in practice

Make It Wild (2010), Run Wild 2011 and Nature’s Playground 2008 by Fiona Danks & Jo Schofield
Plenty of ideas

Nature Activities for Children: Irmgard Kutsch & Brigitte Walden 2006-7
Waldorf book. One of a series of four.

Scouting Skills: A Complete Guide: Foreward by Bear Grylls 2010
More the genuine article!

Sharing Nature with Children: Joseph Cornell
Sharing Nature with Children 2: Joseph Cornell 1999
Teachers' Nature Bible in the 80s..

The Little Book of Outdoor Play by Sally Featherstone 2007
Outdoor Play: Providing Continuity in Purposeful Play and Exploration - Carrying on in KS 1: Sally Featherstone, Lynn Broadbent, and Ros Bayley
The Little Book of Outside in All Weathers: Sally Featherstone 2007
The Little Book of the Seasons: Sally Featherstone 2005
Lots of practical ideas based on teaching experience

The Nature Connection: My Outdoor Workbook for Getting to Know Nature Up Close: Clare Walker Leslie 2010
Great workbook, genuine and heartfelt. Lots of Naturalist ideas - American

The Outdoor Classroom - A Place to Learn: Hilary Harriman 2008

 
Children & Nature
The John Muir Trust
Growing Conventions!
Soil Association Primary Resources
  
 
 
Nature Detectives - Woodland Trust
  
Field Studies Council
 
Natural England for Schools
 
Children, Youth & Environment
 
Green Hearts
 
Play England Resources
 
No Child Left Inside
 
Autumn Watch
 
British Tree Site
 
Wodland Trust's British Trees
 
The Ranger's Site - Great Information
Young People's Environment Trust
 
 
 
 
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