{"id":1232,"date":"2011-10-24T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2011-10-24T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:53:35","slug":"teaching-in-nature-how-going-local-into-nature-changes-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/10\/24\/teaching-in-nature-how-going-local-into-nature-changes-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in Nature: How going local into nature changes learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Take a group of teachers, introduce them to the wonders of a local natural place and then leave them to do what they do best. The results? Exciting, creative and motivating cross-curricular outdoor learning opportunities for pupils \u2013 and teachers who are confidently using the site across the curriculum!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html\">http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year four groups of teachers met with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) National Nature Reserve (NNR) managers to learn about the natural and cultural features that make their site special. Over the course of the school year these teachers, from early years, primary, secondary and special schools, worked collaboratively to develop activities for their classes to do on these sites and test them out. Find out more about the \u00a0project from the teachers and pupils themselves at <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html\">http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/span> &lt;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html\">http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/span>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>A report on the project was written by educational researchers from the University of Stirling, who provided invaluable support and insight throughout the project. This is available at:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snh.gov.uk\/publications-data-and-research\/publications\/search-the-catalogue\/publication-detail\/?id=1839\">http:\/\/www.snh.gov.uk\/publications-data-and-research\/publications\/search-the-catalogue\/publication-detail\/?id=1839<\/a><\/span><\/span> &lt;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snh.gov.uk\/publications-data-and-research\/publications\/search-the-catalogue\/publication-detail\/?id=1839\">http:\/\/www.snh.gov.uk\/publications-data-and-research\/publications\/search-the-catalogue\/publication-detail\/?id=1839<\/a><\/span><\/span>&gt; .<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a group of teachers, introduce them to the wonders of a local natural place and then leave them to do what they do best. The results? Exciting, creative and motivating cross-curricular outdoor learning opportunities for pupils \u2013 and teachers who are confidently using the site across the curriculum! http:\/\/teachinginnature.stir.ac.uk\/index.html Last year four groups of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/10\/24\/teaching-in-nature-how-going-local-into-nature-changes-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching in Nature: How going local into nature changes learning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}