Membership
One outdoor lesson a week, planned in ten minutes.
450+ curriculum-linked outdoor lessons for math, English and science, ages 4–12 — written by a qualified primary teacher who specialises in outdoor learning. No pond, no minibus, no forest required.
Free
For seeing whether this works for your class.
$0
/ year
No card needed.
- Every free lesson and activity sheet
- Print-ready PDFs, ages 4–12
- One teacher
- Premium lessons
- Scheme of Work & Lesson Generator
Create a free account
Takes a minute. Nothing to cancel.
Individual
For one teacher who wants the whole library.
$15
/ year
about £11 · billed in USD
Less than a pack of laminating pouches.
- Everything in Free, plus…
- All 450+ lessons, free and premium — math, English, science
- Every age band, 4–12, in one place
- One teacher
- Scheme of Work & Lesson Generator
Join for $15 a year
One payment a year. Cancel whenever you like.
School plan — best value
Every teacher in your school. One invoice.
The whole staff, the whole library, and a dedicated outdoor lesson for every week of the year — so your outdoor offer already exists in September instead of being something someone has to build.
- Everything in the Individual plan — all 450+ lessons — for every teacher in the school
- The Outdoor Learning Scheme of Work — a dedicated outdoor lesson for every week of the school year, ready to teach
- The Outdoor Lesson Generator — build a lesson around whatever you’re teaching this week
- Unlimited staff. No seats to buy, no logins to manage, no leaver admin
Free tier — not a trial, no card needed
Written by a specialist — a qualified primary teacher
Schools can pay by invoice — just ask
What’s behind the login
Everything, in one place, already written
Outdoor learning falls over for the same reason every time: not enthusiasm, but Sunday night. You believe in it, and then it’s 9pm, you’ve got a maths objective to hit on Tuesday, and building an outdoor lesson from scratch is the thing that doesn’t happen. So the class stays inside.
Educate Outside exists to remove that step. The lesson already exists, it’s already tied to what you’re teaching, and it’s already a PDF.
The library
- 450+ lessons across math, English and science
- Three age bands — 4–6, 7–9 and 10–12 — so you can find your class in two clicks
- Real curriculum topics. Fractions, phonics, habitats, place value, figurative language, forces — not “nature activities”
- Print-ready PDFs. A4, no prep, no fiddling
The tools
- The Outdoor Learning Scheme of Work — a dedicated outdoor lesson for every week of the school year. School plan.
- The Outdoor Lesson Generator — build a lesson around whatever you happen to be teaching this week. School plan.
Written by someone who has stood in the rain with thirty children. Every lesson here comes from a qualified primary teacher who specialises in outdoor learning. That shows up in the small things: knowing that paper is useless above a light breeze, that a twenty-minute slot is really twelve once you’ve got coats on, and that “go and find something interesting” is not an instruction a Year 4 class can follow. Those details are the difference between a lesson that works outside and one that only works on paper.
Which one am I?
One teacher, or a whole school
If it’s just you — your class, your planning, maybe a bit of homeschooling — the Individual plan is $15 a year and gives you the entire library. That’s less than a pack of laminating pouches, and you’ll use it more.
If it’s your school, the maths does itself. An average primary has around thirteen teachers. Thirteen individual plans is $195. The School plan is $100 for all of them, plus the Scheme of Work and the Lesson Generator, which no individual plan includes. It’s the only way to say “every class does a dedicated outdoor lesson every week” and have it actually be true by half term.
And if you’re not ready to decide, don’t. The free tier isn’t a trial — it stays free, there’s plenty in it, and no card goes anywhere near it.
Questions
The things teachers actually ask
We don’t have a field. Or trees. Is this pointless?
No — and this is the single most common reason schools talk themselves out of outdoor learning. The lessons are built for the grounds a normal primary actually has: tarmac, a strip of grass, a hedge, a few planters. Where a lesson needs something specific, it says so. Nothing here assumes a woodland.
What happens when it rains?
Some of it gets better in the rain, honestly. But the real answer is that the library is big enough that there is always something that works today — short, standing-up, no paper. The lessons tell you what they need, so you’re not finding out halfway through that thirty worksheets and a stiff breeze don’t mix.
Is this Forest School?
No, and it’s worth being straight about that. Forest School is a specific, brilliant, long-term pedagogy that needs trained leaders and proper time. This is different: curriculum lessons that happen to work better outdoors, run by an ordinary class teacher in an ordinary twenty-minute slot. If you want Forest School ideas, we’ve written about those too — but the membership is a curriculum library, not a Forest School qualification.
I’m in the US / UK. Do your age bands work for my class?
We use ages rather than grades or year groups, precisely so the site works in both. Ages 4–6, 7–9 and 10–12. There’s a full alignment guide showing how those map to US grades and UK year groups.
Can my school pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. Email hello@educateoutside.com and we’ll raise an invoice with your PO number on it. No card, no expenses claim, no business manager pulling faces at you.
What if I hate it?
Then don’t renew — it’s one payment a year, not a rolling contract, and there’s nothing to cancel on the free tier. But start free rather than gambling $15 on our say-so. If the free lessons don’t earn their place in your week, the paid ones won’t either.
Membership
One outdoor lesson a week, planned in ten minutes.
450+ curriculum-linked outdoor lessons for math, English and science, ages 4–12 — written by a qualified primary teacher who specialises in outdoor learning. No pond, no minibus, no forest required.
Free
For seeing whether this works for your class.
No card needed.
- Every free lesson and activity sheet
- Print-ready PDFs, ages 4–12
- One teacher
- Premium lessons
- Scheme of Work & Lesson Generator
Create a free accountTakes a minute. Nothing to cancel.
Individual
For one teacher who wants the whole library.
about £11 · billed in USD
Less than a pack of laminating pouches.
- Everything in Free, plus…
- All 450+ lessons, free and premium — math, English, science
- Every age band, 4–12, in one place
- One teacher
- Scheme of Work & Lesson Generator
Join for $15 a yearOne payment a year. Cancel whenever you like.
Every teacher in your school. One invoice.
The whole staff, the whole library, and a dedicated outdoor lesson for every week of the year — so your outdoor offer already exists in September instead of being something someone has to build.
about £75 · billed in USD
About $8 per teacher, per year Subscribe your schoolNeed a purchase order or an invoice?
Email us and we’ll send one over.
Free tier — not a trial, no card needed Written by a specialist — a qualified primary teacher Schools can pay by invoice — just ask
What’s behind the login
Everything, in one place, already written
Outdoor learning falls over for the same reason every time: not enthusiasm, but Sunday night. You believe in it, and then it’s 9pm, you’ve got a maths objective to hit on Tuesday, and building an outdoor lesson from scratch is the thing that doesn’t happen. So the class stays inside.
Educate Outside exists to remove that step. The lesson already exists, it’s already tied to what you’re teaching, and it’s already a PDF.
The library
The tools
Written by someone who has stood in the rain with thirty children. Every lesson here comes from a qualified primary teacher who specialises in outdoor learning. That shows up in the small things: knowing that paper is useless above a light breeze, that a twenty-minute slot is really twelve once you’ve got coats on, and that “go and find something interesting” is not an instruction a Year 4 class can follow. Those details are the difference between a lesson that works outside and one that only works on paper.
Which one am I?
One teacher, or a whole school
If it’s just you — your class, your planning, maybe a bit of homeschooling — the Individual plan is $15 a year and gives you the entire library. That’s less than a pack of laminating pouches, and you’ll use it more.
If it’s your school, the maths does itself. An average primary has around thirteen teachers. Thirteen individual plans is $195. The School plan is $100 for all of them, plus the Scheme of Work and the Lesson Generator, which no individual plan includes. It’s the only way to say “every class does a dedicated outdoor lesson every week” and have it actually be true by half term.
And if you’re not ready to decide, don’t. The free tier isn’t a trial — it stays free, there’s plenty in it, and no card goes anywhere near it.
Questions
The things teachers actually ask
We don’t have a field. Or trees. Is this pointless?
No — and this is the single most common reason schools talk themselves out of outdoor learning. The lessons are built for the grounds a normal primary actually has: tarmac, a strip of grass, a hedge, a few planters. Where a lesson needs something specific, it says so. Nothing here assumes a woodland.
What happens when it rains?
Some of it gets better in the rain, honestly. But the real answer is that the library is big enough that there is always something that works today — short, standing-up, no paper. The lessons tell you what they need, so you’re not finding out halfway through that thirty worksheets and a stiff breeze don’t mix.
Is this Forest School?
No, and it’s worth being straight about that. Forest School is a specific, brilliant, long-term pedagogy that needs trained leaders and proper time. This is different: curriculum lessons that happen to work better outdoors, run by an ordinary class teacher in an ordinary twenty-minute slot. If you want Forest School ideas, we’ve written about those too — but the membership is a curriculum library, not a Forest School qualification.
I’m in the US / UK. Do your age bands work for my class?
We use ages rather than grades or year groups, precisely so the site works in both. Ages 4–6, 7–9 and 10–12. There’s a full alignment guide showing how those map to US grades and UK year groups.
Can my school pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. Email hello@educateoutside.com and we’ll raise an invoice with your PO number on it. No card, no expenses claim, no business manager pulling faces at you.
What if I hate it?
Then don’t renew — it’s one payment a year, not a rolling contract, and there’s nothing to cancel on the free tier. But start free rather than gambling $15 on our say-so. If the free lessons don’t earn their place in your week, the paid ones won’t either.
Every class outside, every week — by half term
$100 a year covers your whole staff. That’s about $8 per teacher, one invoice, no seats to manage — and a dedicated outdoor lesson already written for every week of the school year. You don’t have to build an outdoor offer. It already exists; you just switch it on.
Not the one who signs things off? Start with the free lessons yourself — then send your head this page.