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The outdoor classroom in practice, ages 3-7 : a month-by-month guide to forest school provision / Karen Constable.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Edition: Second editionDescription: viii, 180 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 1138310085
  • 9781138310087
  • 9781138310100
  • 1138310107
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Outdoor classroom in practice, ages 3-7LOC classification:
  • LB1047 .C734 2019
Online resources: Summary: Karen Constable is an early childhood teacher based in the UK who brings her years of experience in outdoor education to this month-by-month outline of forest school activity plans. The guide includes necessary resource lists, photographs, and descriptions of how children learned, shared their own creativity, and gained confidence from participating in outdoor play. (Miller Library Staff) Summary: "This book offers guidance on how the outdoors can be used to teach and challenge children across a range of settings by drawing on Forest School practice. Following a month-by-month format, it explores theme related play experiences, planning, evaluations of how the ideas described were carried out and what impact they had on the children. With all-new photographs, this fully updated edition covers both early years and KS1 and provides detailed information on the role of the adult, the environment, planning and using children's interests to guide learning and development. Written by a leading authority in the field, it aims to help practitioners to make the most of the outdoor environment"--
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Karen Constable is an early childhood teacher based in the UK who brings her years of experience in outdoor education to this month-by-month outline of forest school activity plans. The guide includes necessary resource lists, photographs, and descriptions of how children learned, shared their own creativity, and gained confidence from participating in outdoor play. (Miller Library Staff)

"This book offers guidance on how the outdoors can be used to teach and challenge children across a range of settings by drawing on Forest School practice. Following a month-by-month format, it explores theme related play experiences, planning, evaluations of how the ideas described were carried out and what impact they had on the children. With all-new photographs, this fully updated edition covers both early years and KS1 and provides detailed information on the role of the adult, the environment, planning and using children's interests to guide learning and development. Written by a leading authority in the field, it aims to help practitioners to make the most of the outdoor environment"--

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