Learning Path
Outdoor English: 3rd & 4th Class Learning Path
By Moira Lambe
Use the outdoors to your advantage when planning and teaching your English lessons. Let nature be your inspiration while encouraging creative writing, reading, oral language and vocabulary development.
4 resources in this Learning Path
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A-to-Z Outdoors LIst
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/35953/35721.docx Added: 28 Apr 2021 Contributor: Moira Lambe Resource type: Worksheet / ActivityThis A - to - Z list allows your pupils to record what they see, touch, hear on their way to and from school every day. Help to build literacy skills while encouraging them to be present and mindful in their environment.
Resource provided by the UK Learning through Landscapes initiative.
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Nature Creative Writing Prompt Worksheets
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/36011/35779.pdf Added: 30 Apr 2021 Contributor: Moira Lambe Resource type: WorksheetUse these pages to support the creative writing process. Get outdoors to look for inspiration, jot down ideas, begin to develop setting and character, before planning the story and eventually writing.
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Nature Acrostic Poems Worksheet
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/36036/35804.pdf Added: 04 May 2021 Contributor: Moira Lambe Resource type: Worksheet / ActivityTake your class outside and look for inspiration to complete 3 short Acrostic Poems: Tree, WInd and Sun. Brainstorm and come up with poems in groups or individually.
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Sunflower Planting, Study and Comprehension
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/36103/35871.pdf Added: 06 May 2021 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Lesson Plan / Primary Source / WorksheetGet your class interested in nature and the outdoors. Help them to plant their own sunflowers, track their growth and bring the lesson back to the classroom with the sunflower comprehension.
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- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Suggestions for use: Learn interesting facts about sunflowers. Plant your own individually or in groups. Track their progress using the worksheet attached.
