📖🌿 STEM Trails – Outdoor Learning Through Stories
Developed by Emma Brown, part of the North Ayrshire STEM team, these STEM Trails support practitioners to make meaningful connections between stories, STEM and outdoor learning.
Using familiar texts as a starting point, the trails encourage learners to explore their outdoor environment through investigation, observation and problem-solving, helping to bring learning to life beyond the classroom.
🔗 Access the full range of STEM Trail resources here
📌 Or click on the books below to explore each individual trail
🔗 Learning Links:
- Literacy (stories and comprehension)
- Science (outdoor enquiry)
- Health & Wellbeing (learning outdoors)
- LfS (Campus, Curriculum)
💡 What they support
- Outdoor, play-based and enquiry-led learning
- Interdisciplinary connections across literacy and STEM
- Curiosity, creativity and critical thinking
- Use of local environments as a learning resource
These trails are particularly well suited to Early and First Level, while still offering opportunities to adapt for other stages.
A few examples:
