Take Me Outside Day: A Celebration of Outdoor Learning

Take Me Outside Day is Wednesday, October 22nd 2025, and includes a full week of fun and learning!

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Date
October 22nd, 2025
One Week
Of activities, speakers, and prizes
Cost
FREE to join!

Take Me Outside Day helps to raise awareness about outdoor learning by encouraging educators to take their learners outside. This FREE virtual event is an entire week full of activities, speakers, and prizes to encourage folks to head beyond the four walls of a classroom! With the help of our 100+ outdoor learning partners, there is something for all ages, grades, and subjects under the three central themes of Indigenous Perspectives & Knowledge, Environmental Education & Climate Change, and Health & Wellbeing. 

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Learning Challenge

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The Learning Challenge is a year long challenge that encourages educators to take their learners outdoors throughout the school year at least once a week. Educators receive monthly mailouts with resources, lesson plans, and support for getting outside with your learners no matter the season. There is monthly prizes and ways for your learners to engage with the challenge each month. Opt in for this challenge to join a support network of educators committed to taking their learners outside all year long!
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Schedule

Coming soon! To check out all the details from 2024, click here or check out the 2024 Take Me Outside Week Playlist on our Youtube Channel!

Resources

Check out these amazing partner resources from 2024 to help inspire outdoor learning this week!

Ripples of Change from GreenLearning

By the end of this activity, learners will be able to understand that while climate change is happening and it can feel scary, we can still make positive ripples of change for our world. This activity inspires the creation of beautiful nature mandala-inspired art.

 

K-8 Activity Guide from Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities include detailed step-by-step instructions, time and material requirements, background information, academic correlations, assessments, and student worksheets with green career connections.

Paws up for Polar Bears from Polar Bears International 

Learn about polar bears and their changing sea ice habitat. Students will learn to understand ecosystems and make informed decisions through problem solving. The curriculum also instills a stewardship ethic and incorporates NGSS and CCSS standards. Each unit and lesson can be used individually or together.

 

We Play and Protect – Group Scavenger Hunt from Invasive Species Council of BC 

This scavenger hunt challenge from our friends over at ISCBC engages learners in identifying non-native species in their environments. Check out this resource and many other amazing activities and lessons by visiting their website.

 

Educators Teaching Educators: Canada’s Outdoor Early Childhood Education Continuous Professional Learning Framework from Outdoor Play Canada 

This newly released Outdoor Early Childhood Education Framework aims to support educators teaching educators on how to bring learning and play for the early years outdoors.

 

Looking for more inspiration? Checkout our resource directory for lesson plans and resources to help engage learners in outdoor learning!

Looking to take your outdoor learning journey a step further? Join the Learning Challenge to receive monthly mailouts with ready-to-go resources for specific age ranges and to be part of a network of educators committed to participating in outdoor learning year-round!

About TMO Day

If you’d like to get an idea of what is involved with Take Me Outside Day, you can check out the full recap of 2022 here, (including all the recordings from our speakers), or our summary video from 2021 below! Our organizational Impact Reports are also available here. And feel free to reach out if you have any further questions: info@takemeoutside.ca.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Outdoor Learning

We are committed to creating a future for outdoor learning where diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental and foundational pieces that illuminate the beauty and strength of our learning communities. We recognize, as individuals and as a collective, that not every school-aged child in Canada has an equal opportunity to engage in outdoor learning at present. We also recognize that not all educators have equal opportunity or experience with taking learning outdoors, due to a wide variety of barriers. We envision a future where every school-aged child and every educator feels welcome learning outdoors.

Part of our commitment to this work in the realm of outdoor learning is to further support and educate our community on strategies to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into outdoor learning, and further into all educational practices.

We are developing a section of our website here where you will find tools and resources to assist you in making sure your outdoor learning can address issues of race, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientation, accessibility needs, and other marginalized identities.

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OUR MISSION

We believe in a future where spending time outside learning, playing and exploring is a regular and significant part of every learner’s day.

 

Take Me Outside is a charitable organization in Canada (Registration Number: 85069 5206 RR0001).

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