February 3, 2026 – As educators look for meaningful ways to balance digital learning with hands-on experiences, School ...

What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

Each year, more than 10,000 students and families participate in hands-on outdoor science learning at Sierra Nevada Journeys Outdoor Education Camp, with fifth- and sixth-grade students traveling by ...

A 20-acre urban farm in Orlando, Fla., 4Roots addresses urgent issues like food insecurity and environmental decline through regenerative farming, education, and community collaboration. Photo: Chad ...

On any given day, you might find students from Centreville Elementary attending class at one of the school’s 17 outdoor learning spaces, taking a nature walk, checking on the trout they’ve grown from ...

Maine students are kelp farming in Belfast, making honey to study pollinator health in Bath and studying why the Bloomfield ...

Back in 1995, Jenn Trout had to sit on a pile of books to be tall enough to be photographed next to her science teacher, Josh Haupt, for an “Apples for your Favorite Teacher” column that ran in the ...

On Wednesday morning at an elementary campus in the foothills of the Hill Country, environmental science teacher Isaac Esquivel tackled the subject of invasive species with a class of fifth graders.

The University of Maine Extension is launching the Outdoor School for All program for thousands of Maine students in grades four through eight. “Research has reinforced that outdoor learning benefits ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

One might be tempted to think that an outdoors-based school would cancel classes just as much, if not more, than its brick-and-mortar counterparts because of inclement weather. But AdventureMe’s ...