Learning through Landscapes

Curious carrots

Think you know what a carrot looks like?

Discovering colour in your school grounds

Use this table to record which colours you find where.

Dustbin archaeology

What’s in the dustbin?

Electronic treasure hunting

The idea is for the different groups to try and find each others’ hidden geocaches, having exchanged maps/ satellite images.

Energy

Feel the force – water as an energy source

Equations

Using resources to represent numbers in equations

Exploring boundaries

To explore the school boundary • To look at ways of improving the boundary • To develop a sense of place

Exploring microclimates

To find out which places in the school grounds experience extremes of weather and why. • To understand how microclimates are formed.

Expressive arts

A Curriculum for Excellence recognises that learning is embedded in experience. Outdoor learning is active, hands-on and can provide a real

Feel the heat

Explore how different surfaces absorb and reflect heat

Fires and cooking

Introduction to fires and cooking

Flag

Using items from your grounds to create an artistic feature

Friction

Exploring friction and forces

Healthy wellbeing

Pupils learnt all about their lunch when they followed it from plot to plate.

Herbs for everyone

Use this chart to record the characteristics of the different herbs in your school grounds.

History

A Curriculum for Excellence EY – people, past events and societies

Homes for mini beasts

Discovering and creating habitats

Human bar chart

A living example to demonstrate how bar charts work

Hunting for hidden words

A treasure hunt for spelling and language work

Labyrinth

To create a labyrinth • To use the labyrinth for a meditative journey

Literacy

Time spent cloud gazing and describing what they could see encouraged lots of description and imagination.

Making shapes

Make 2D shapes using sticks

Messy Outdoor Maths

Julia Robertson takes a class outside to show them how to study maths outdoors

Mud glorious mud

Fun mud activities

Numeracy

Early years maths