Below is a collation of resources to support STEM learning and teaching outdoors.

🌳 STEM Outdoors Activity Cards

Check out this brand new and final resource from the RAiSE team to support learning and teaching of STEM outdoors. There are 30+ activities per level; these are sorted by the four seasons and some can be carried out at anytime of year.

If you’d rather view these by season/anytime learning, use the links below:

• STEM Outdoors – Early Level
• STEM Outdoors – First Level
• STEM Outdoors – Second Level

🗺 NatureScot Greenspace Map

You may wish to find out what greenspaces you have near your setting. Type your setting postcode into the NatureScot Greenspace Map here.

🏕 Outdoor Learning

Watch the video below to get started with planning outdoor learning for your local context.

• Know Your Place – This document from RAiSE supports planning STEM learning in your local context.
• Progression of Outdoor Skills Through STEM – This document shows ways you can develop skills from Early to Second Level through outdoor STEM experiences.
• Outdoor Numeracy Activities – This list of outdoor numeracy activities may also help for exploring numeracy and mathematics learning outdoors.

🍃 Biodiversity

Early, First and Second Level biodiversity teaching resources were developed by RAiSE to provide practitioners with practical examples for supporting delivery of biodiversity lessons within the classroom.

🔻 Resources:

• Early Level Booklet
• Early Level PowerPoint
• First Level PowerPoint
• Second Level PowerPoint

🔗 Useful Links:

For further resources to support teaching of biodiversity, you can explore the links below:

• Biodiversity Resources (Keep Scotland Beautiful)
• Teaching Tools About Biodiversity (WWF)
• Biodiversity Loss (Royal Society)

💡 Anytime Learning:

The videos below may also support outdoor STEM learning in your setting.

🍂 Getting Started With Outdoor Maths (Early Level)

If you would like to get started with learning and teaching of outdoor maths, the methods shared below can be applied at any level to help you get started, but the activity examples included in the video are suited more to Early Level.

👩‍🌾 Top Tips for Your School Garden

If you have some green space at your setting that you would like to transform into a garden area to encourage more biodiversity, you may find the guide below useful, if you are starting out.

If you have come across or created any further resources to support learning and teaching outdoors, you can share these with the EDC STEM Community on Microsoft Teams. If you’d like to join, please email ed109mdickson@glow.sch.uk.