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An educator in a ribbon skirt helps children along their scavenger hunt in the forest

An educator in a ribbon skirt helps children along their scavenger hunt in the forest

Outdoor Learning Part 6: Forest Nature School and Spiritual Wellbeing

This multi-part series of blog posts on Outdoor Learning has been adapted from a Final Academic Paper for one of my Early Childhood Development courses at the University of Winnipeg. The Medicine Wheel is a First Nations teaching that considers a person’s wellbeing to include “mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the self” (Jagger, p. 7). The next few blog posts in this series use these four domains of wellbeing to review how outdoor learning can support child

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An educator holds the hand of a child as they balance on a log, while two other children jump from one log to the next

An educator holds the hand of a child as they balance on a log, while two other children jump from one log to the next

Outdoor Learning Part 5: Forest Nature Schools and Physical Wellbeing

This multi-part series of blog posts on Outdoor Learning has been adapted from a Final Academic Paper for one of my Early Childhood Development courses at the University of Winnipeg. The Medicine Wheel is a First Nations teaching that considers a person’s wellbeing to include “mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the self” (Jagger, p. 7). The next few blog posts in this series use these four domains of wellbeing to review how outdoor learning can support child

Feb 263 min read

Four children and one educator observe plants in a medicine garden

Four children and one educator observe plants in a medicine garden

Outdoor Learning Part 4: Forest Nature Schools and Mental Wellbeing

This multi-part series of blog posts on Outdoor Learning has been adapted from a Final Academic Paper for one of my Early Childhood Development courses at the University of Winnipeg. The Medicine Wheel is a First Nations teaching that considers a person’s wellbeing to include “mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the self” (Jagger, p. 7). The next few blog posts in this series use these four domains of wellbeing to review how outdoor learning can support child

Feb 195 min read

A child sits alone on a hill watching seven other children walk across a frozen river

A child sits alone on a hill watching seven other children walk across a frozen river

Outdoor Learning Part 3: Forest Nature Schools and Emotional Wellbeing

This multi-part series of blog posts on Outdoor Learning has been adapted from a Final Academic Paper for one of my Early Childhood Development courses at the University of Winnipeg. The Medicine Wheel is a First Nations teaching that considers a person’s wellbeing to include “mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the self” (Jagger, p. 7). The next few blog posts in this series use these four domains of wellbeing to review how outdoor learning can support child

Feb 124 min read

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