How Do Young Children Learn: Outdoor Learning and Play

Curriculum Support How do young children learn? When planning for outdoor opportunities and experiences for your children, it is important to bear in mind how young children learn. What learning environments work best for young children? What experiences... More

Curriculum Support How do young children learn? When planning for outdoor opportunities and experiences for your children, it is important to bear in mind how young children learn. What learning environments work best for young children? What experiences will ensure that learning will be satisfying and successful for them? In this Curriculum Support, we will look at some of these key areas. The outdoors offers some of the things young children need for learning such as room for movement and ample opportunity for hands-on activity. Think about providing small, quiet places, outside as well as indoors. In your short, medium or long term planning include these elements and features to create the conditions young children need to thrive best in their learning and development. Many of these elements interact and strong experiences with a lasting impact can be planned in quite simple ways. The best provision links experiences across the indoor and outdoor environments, making use of wh Less