This school uses a community approach to creating beautiful learning spacesfor the school. They’ve generously shared their ‘how to’ and it’s truly inspirational!
Are they back yet?? We are keeping our finger’s crossed but meanwhile there’s lots to see and notice. Many classrooms tune-in to the live feed as background during student work time – nothing like nature to help students focus.
Weekday screen time of over two hours each day increases mental health risks in adolescents with additional anxiety linked to passive scrolling on screens.
Nature-Based Learning has measurable socio-emotional, academic, and wellbeing benefits
Start with a simple question to inspire connection, vocabulary, original thinking, and a beautiful writing product.
For visual learners, this video explains it well.
Writing prompts provide an open-ended and immediate way to focus. These turn the “great outdoors” into a discovery process full of observational and detailed writing. Give the page for student choice or provide prompts one at a time to teacher direct the writing goal.
Observation can deepen from the sense of hearing as well. Using deep listening through Sound Mapping strengthens focus as a skill and is known to calm the nervous system.
Digital directions – plus a story – for teaching the sound mapping process.
Some students prefer a blank page; use this model for students who need the visual cues of concentric circles.
