Description

Learning occurs both indoors and out. An outdoor environment should be a place to run, play, and learn. This book will focus on designing safe outdoor spaces to promote learning, engagement, and active play. This book focuses on creating inviting outdoor play spaces that invite children to explore nature around them. The current trend focuses on creating natural play spaces for children. This book focuses on designing both, traditional and natural play spaces. You will get several ideas to design outdoor areas like play areas, sandbox, water play, and gardens. You will also learn how to use natural materials in outdoor design. This is a great resource for teachers to learn about what types of outdoor environments work for preschool-aged children. The author mentions good examples for you to really understand the concept she is talking about. We can find some great ideas to incorporate into the "outside classroom", especially her ideas of using nature to help young children learn about their surroundings.