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Nature Schools in Sweden: Embracing Outdoor Education for Holistic Learning

Explore the unique approach of Nature Schools in Sweden where outdoor education is emphasized to foster awareness, understanding, and a sense of belonging in students. Teachers integrate subjects while using the outdoors as a pedagogic resource, encouraging physical activity, cooperative learning, and problem-solving in realistic situations. Discover how this method enhances mathematical skills by linking the abstract to the concrete through practical outdoor activities. Unleash the potential of nature-based education in a world Heritage setting.

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Nature Schools in Sweden: Embracing Outdoor Education for Holistic Learning

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  1. The Association of Nature Schools in Sweden www.naturskola.se

  2. 85 schools Run by the localcommunity Staff = mainresource A way of workingmorethan a bulding/place Falun Nature School, 1993 Farm in a World Heritage Traditionalfarming and animals Pre-school, 4th, 7th, 8th grades Teachertraining Factsabout the Nature Schools

  3. Experiences: Using all the senses to createawareness Securityleads to a sense of belonging Learning by doing Discoveries New discoveriesleads to new questions Understanding Discoveriesleads to understanding Awareness Understandingleads to awareness of the influence and the depending part man has Soul of the Nature Schools

  4. Whyoutdooreducation? • Using the body and senses • Different ways to learn • Physical activity • Cooperate and sharedexperience • Biologicallyilliterate • Integratesubjects • Localnatureawareness • Using the outdoors/schoolyard as a pedagogicresource

  5. Books for teachers(www.teknikverkstan.com)

  6. Linkingschoolsubjects with outdoorlearning Move from abstract to concrete Moremaths and less counting Problem solving in realistic situations – practicaluse A complement to books and classroomteaching Statistics and the future Maths is fun! WhyMathematics?

  7. Maths as a Language-communicatemaths in relevant and meaningful situations Bags of Secrets– interact and fetch Encirclingtrees– estimate and calculate Heights of trees– using uniform triangles Secret Picture – communicate and cooperate Fetching Poems One meter rope – different possibilities RunningNumbers SortingExercise

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