GUIDANCE
- Going Out There – Health and Safety guidance on leaving the school grounds
- Scottish Outdoor Access Code (SOAC) education resource pack and Young Scot videos
- Scottish Forestry information on sustainable use of local sites
- Education Scotland provide an excellent summary of outdoor learning resources, including Curriculum for Excellence through Outdoor Learning.
Emotional connection provides the foundations for cognitive learning. Nature can be the ideal context for this progression in learning.
Outdoor learning in nature can take place in different types of outdoor settings – school grounds, local and urban greenspace, and the wider and wilder countryside, as illustrated below.
Find useful links to these place types below and what they can offer.
SCHOOL GROUNDS:
LOCAL GREENSPACE:
- Explore your Urban Greenspace
- Beyond Your Boundary has a ‘finding your local greenspace’ section (pp 8-9)
- The Greenspace Map for Outdoor Learning helps to quickly identify green spaces close to education settings that may provide outdoor learning potential.
- Find these resources and more in NatureScot’s Learning in Local Greenspace webpages.
- The Outdoor Learning Map helps you to discover wild places, learning resources and check out what other groups and schools are up to in and around Edinburgh.
- Urban Nature Maps for Glasgow & Edinburgh, from Urban Good
- Greenspace Scotland Better Outside – Outdoor Play & Learning
WIDER LAND AND SPECIAL PLACES
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