Secondary / High school Resources
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Outdoor Learning - Introduction to Secondary Education
This Teacher Toolkit is offered as a framework for developing your own curriculum-specific ideas and activities for Outdoor Learning. It is quite flexible and should be adapted to suit your needs.
Remember to note the benefits of Outdoor Learning in your teaching area, and to provide tips wherever you can for embedding Outdoor Learning into the curriculum.
Include relevant research, case studies and examples that might assist teachers. Teacher Toolkit 1 Benefits of Outdoor Learning presents research that will help you argue the case for taking students out of the classroom.
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Outdoor Learning - Introducing Outdoor Learning into Geography in Secondary Education
The outdoor area is a vital learning environment for students. Outdoor and fieldwork learning provides students with opportunities to engage with peers, apply theoretical knowledge, and practice key geographical skills. In the field, students can engage with real issues that are relevant to their lives, using an inquiry approach to encourage curiosity and exploration. Given geography is the study of the world and its processes and interconnections, it is difficult to gain a full understanding of key skills and knowledge without spending time outside.
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Visiting environments further away from the school can foster in students an awareness of their own community, build a local sense of belonging and identity, encourage concern and respect for their local area and encourage participation in sustainable practices.
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Outdoor Learning - Introducing Outdoor Learning into Physical Education in Secondary Education
The outdoors and physical education come hand in hand together, yet this does not discount the possibilities that exist with embedding physical education activities in the outdoor environment in secondary schools.
Embedded within this toolkit you will find a range of activities that can be a guiding point into embedding curriculum-aligned outdoor learning activities across various year levels and student groups.
Through DET’s Strategic Partnership Program funding (SPP), Outdoors Victoria as lead organisation in partnership with ACHPER Victoria (Australian Council Health Physical Education and Recreation), EEV (Environment Education Victoria), GTAV (Geography Teachers Association of Victoria), and Parks Victoria have created a series of Teacher Toolkit resources to encourage the use of using the outdoors within your everyday classes.
Across a four-calendar year program total of 17 Teacher Toolkit Documents were produced. These documents have been developed through extensive consultation with the broader schooling community and external teacher organisations over several years including but not limited to ALEA (Australian Literacy Educators Network), HTAV (History Teachers Association of Victoria) and 100+ Surveyed teachers to ensure developmentally and culturally sensitive activities have been used. Across this project, Luke Parker was the lead editor and Author although cannot thank his team and external partners noted above enough for their work in producing the following teacher toolkit