February & March 2023 Outdoor Learning Ideas
#TMO4LearningChallenge: Activity Ideas from February & March!
Spring is in the air and we have so many resources to share with you for the winding down of winter and the fresh start to spring!
This is a portion of what we send to those participating in the #TMO4LearningChallenge each month! In this post, we’re passing on some of the ideas we share with our 4500+ Learning Challenge participants each month to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. For those who are not a part of this challenge, you can still have access to these outdoor learning ...
International Women’s Day 2023
#EmbraceEquity: The women involved with Take Me Outside!
Take Me Outside relies on the support and work of many individuals in order to accomplish each of our staple initiatives and to grow our offerings each and every year. We are very fortunate to have so much support encompassing our organization. March is Women's History Month and Wednesday this week is International Women's Day. As such, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge, celebrate, and honour some of the women identifying staff, board members, and committee members whose passion and dedication are two of ...
Reflections from the 2023 Winter Challenge
Our yearly Winter Challenge does not draw the huge crowds that our annual Take Me Outside Day or the year-long Learning Challenge does, but we think that the group of educators that commit to daily outside time in winter is a really special bunch. It's not always easy to suit up yourself - and your learners - to then head out into the cold.
Throughout the Challenge we supported educators by providing daily suggested activities around a central theme, while extending the learning with additional resources and plans covering a variety of subjects and grades. Each year, we ...
January 2023 Outdoor Learning Ideas
#TMO4LearningChallenge: Activity Ideas for January!
Feel like hibernating? Check out this latest blog post for fun activities and helpful resources to move you through winter. Stay warm, stay active - we're all in this together!
This is a portion of what we send to those participating in the #TMO4LearningChallenge each month!In this post, we’re passing on some of the ideas we share with our 4500+ Learning Challenge participants each month to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. For those who are not a part of this challenge, you can still have ...
December 2022 Outdoor Learning Ideas
#TMO4LearningChallenge: Activity Ideas for December!
In this post, we’re passing on some of the ideas we share with our 4500+ Learning Challenge participants each month to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. For those who are not a part of this challenge, you can still have access to these outdoor learning ideas through our blog posts! We hope they also equip you with inspiration for your time outside. Let the fun, celebration, and connection to the earth begin! If you try one of these ideas we would love to hear how it went! Please email us ...
November 2022 Outdoor Learning Ideas
The 2022-23 Take Me Outside for Learning Challenge is officially underway!
If you happen to be one of the 4,500+ educators who has committed to a full school year of weekly outdoor and land-based learning we offer our utmost gratitude to you! In this post, we're passing on some of the ideas we share with Learning Challenge participants each month to support their commitment of weekly outdoor learning. We hope they also equip you with inspiration for your time outside. Let the fun, celebration, and connection to the earth begin! We believe in sharing good news stories, ...
Showcasing our amazing Student Video Contest winners!
Thank you to everyone who entered the 2022 Student Video Contest! This year's entries really showcased the diversity of the country's people and landscapes, and we are thrilled to be able to share these works with our audience. There are so many ways to spend time outside, and these short films will certainly inspire you to go explore your own backyard!
A huge congrats to students from Campus Regina Public in Regina, Saskatchewan for being the Grand Prize winners of the Take Me Outside Student Video Contest, in partnership with MEC and the Banff Mountain Film and Book ...
Nakoda Elementary Wild Program
https://youtu.be/ukWJDtzPTBU
The NES Wild program began in 2021 with grade 4 students from Nakoda Elementary, located in Mînî Thnî, Alberta, to help get them outside. Every afternoon, educators linked and Indigenized curriculum so students could embrace the land and their connection to it. Take Me Outside partnered with this program to create this short film to help inspire and show other educators what is possible when both teachers and administration are committed to students learning outside. This project was generously supported by the Pauw Foundation.
Learning Challenge inspiration from Mrs. Wardlow’s class!
One of our teacher participants from the 2021-22 Learning Challenge sent us a link to her blog, and we wanted to share it as registrations open for the upcoming fourth year of the Challenge! Have you signed up yet to join in?
Mrs. Wardlow's kindergarten class uses the local green space in a nearby park for their weekly outdoor learning time. You can check out all their adventures and get some great activity ideas by checking out her blog where she documents all the fun!
Near the end of the 2021-22 school year, she wrote about how her class got involved to advocate ...
Learning Challenge 2021-22 Impact Report
Launched during the 2019/20 school year, the Take Me Outside Learning Challenge has grown to encompass participation in almost every province and territory across the country. The goal is simple: encourage educators to implement outdoor learning with their students once per week from September to June. Ultimately the Learning Challenge works to extend the impact of Take Me Outside Day by offering tools & resources for building a community of educators committed to taking their classroom beyond four walls and relishing in the positive impacts of outdoor learning. Below ...
