Outdoor learning

Topic(s) addressed

• Creativity and sustainability 

• Space, greenery and environment.

Target groups

• Kindergarten teachers (primary target group)

• c.a. 300 children (secondary target group)

Methodologies

• Carrying out outdoor activities with children in different weather conditions 

• Developing new teaching methods applicable in early childhood education

• Improving teachers’ language skills along with professional competencies

• Involving parents in outdoor activities

• eTwinning as a way of sharing experiences and knowledge

Environments

• Transferring learning activities outdoors- appreciation for the outdoor space in the education process

• planning, organising and carrying out various outdoor activities under every weather condition

• building outdoor equipment with natural and recyclable materials

• planting trees around the kindergarten

Teachers

To improve children’s motor skills teachers took responsibility for:

• developing physical and psychomotor tasks and activities

• constructing playground facilities using ecological and recyclable materials (with the participation of parents and children) 

Teachers have: 

• adapted and broadened their teaching methods

• raised their professional competencies

• significantly changed their curriculum.

Impact

Project activities contributed to the physical, mental and emotional development of the participants. 

Teachers.

• have tested new ways of teaching.

• improved their competencies in many areas: language, digital, methodology, leadership etc.

Children:

• strengthened motor skills and coordination, 

• enriched knowledge about the nature and our influence on it

• improved their social skills

• learnt how to adapt to new situations