FREE GUIDE FOR TEACHERS NEW TO OUTDOOR EDUCATION
You Don’t Need a Bus to Start.
Download Start Outside, a 16-page guide to launching environmental and outdoor education in Grades 6 to 12.
Simple equipment, local places, reliable routines.
Outdoor education looks bigger from the outside than it needs to feel on the inside.
New teachers picture buses, technical gear, overnight trips, permission forms and a budget they do not have. Those might come later. They are not the starting point.
The starting point is usually a school field, a patch of trees, a pathway, a local park, a few dependable materials and a class learning how to work together.
What’s in it?
Ten starter items and a sensible order to buy them in
Group culture and outdoor classroom routines before anything complicated
How to use your school grounds and the places within walking distance
Curriculum connections with evidence you can actually assess
A calm first month, week by week, and a reusable planning page for everything after it
Made for the teacher who has been handed the course
You do not need an outdoor ed background, a budget, or a program that already exists.
If you have been handed an outdoor or environmental education course and you are not sure what week one looks like, this is written for you. It assumes a school field, a park you can walk to, and a class you are still getting to know.
If this becomes something you want to build into how your school teaches, I run workshops on exactly that.
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What is the closest place to your school that your class could return to all year?
Let’s start your journey together
