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Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Learning Outside the Primary Classroom

Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Learning Outside the Primary Classroom

Paul Barron

Oct 2009, Paperback, 192 pages 
ISBN13: 9781408225608
ISBN10: 1408225603
£14.99 Buy Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Learning Outside the Primary Classroom

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Description

With outdoor education is resurfacing as a recommended method for teachers to use,this book offers ideas and activities to help teachers bring the outdoors into their teaching.These ideas for learning outside the normal classroom environment offer inspiration to new and experienced teachers alike by suggesting practical and adaptable ideas for use in many areas of the curriculum and daily school life.  Practical Ideas, Games and Activities for LearningOutside the Primary Classroom is a resource that every primary teacher will treasure, enabling them to add a sparkle to any lesson.

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Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Outdoor Learning and Organisation

Learning Outdoors Safely

Outdoor Classroom

Outdoor Kit Bag

Teaching Outdoor Tips

The Countryside Rules

Nature Log

Chapter 2:  Art & DT

Camping Creations

Animal Feeders

Animal Masks

Kite Making

Leaf Rubbing

Living Willow Structures

Mirror Making

Nature Collage

Nature Mobile

Nature Photography

Nature Sculptures

Outdoor Chair

Seasons Pictures

Shelter Making

Sticky Pictures

The Big Picture

Wind Chime

Withy Sculptures

Chapter 3:  English

Drama Garden

Nature Guide Book

Outdoor Poetry

Outdoor Storytime

Post It

Chapter 4:  Humanities

Anemometer

Farm Visit

Making Tracks

Nature Treasure Hunt

Orienteering

Rain Gauge

Weather Report

Wind Vane

Woodland Layers

Chapter 5: Maths

Outdoor Patterns

Buried Treasure

Compass Jumping

How Old is your Tree?

Leafy Lesson

Ordering Nature

Tall Trees

Time Out

Weather Analysis

Chapter 6: Music

Nature Music

Shaker Maker

Sound Walk

Chapter 7:  PSHE & Citizenship

All Aboard

Blindfold Journeys

Journey Stick

Outdoor Circle Games

Parachute Ball Games

Parachute Movement Ganes

Pass the Stick

The Memory Game

Outdoor Improvements

Chapter 8: Science

Acorn Planting

Animal Partners

Animal Tracks

Bird’s Nest

Learning about Leaves

Planting and Growing

Sweep Net

What am I?

What’s Underneath?

Index of Activities

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Features

Key features:

  • Over 150 activities aimed at learning outside the classroom
  • A supplement download site containing forms and templates that teachers can print off and use in their classroom
  • Referenced to the National Curriculum
  • Individual, group and whole class activities
  • Variations section to show how the activities can be used in different ways and with different groups of students
  • Cross-curricular links to inspire creativity across the primary curriculum
  • Reduces the time spent planning, and fit easily into a busy timetable

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