This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It's great if you're looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions...
Living Things, Script Writing, and Habitats. Cross-Curricular Nature Guide
This is a fantastic cross-curricular activity where students will create a video tour showcasing the nature around your outdoor area. It's perfect for...
Outdoor Persuasive Writing - My Item Is Best - Non-Fiction
Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting...
Descriptive Writing - Adjectives & Figurative Language - Barefoot Descriptions
This adjectives activity has students walk barefoot outdoors, describing textures with adjectives, similes, and metaphors. Differentiated sheets included.
It's...
This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas.
These cards can...
This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas for your students...
This is a fun activity to get those imagination juices flowing as well as encouraging creative play and drama. Students will head outside and find themselves...
Cross-Curricular Plants and Ecology Project - Seed Bombs
This is a fantastic project with connections to living things, math, art, and business. Your class will create their own business selling seed bombs, involving...
Engage reluctant writers with this activity combining handwriting, spelling, and counting. Includes differentiated tracing and outdoor exploration tasks.
This...
Fun treasure hunt activity where students hide treasure and write instructions using compass bearings. Great for learning navigation and writing skills.
Who...
Non-Fiction Outdoor Writing Activity: Create Your Own Nature Handbook
Inspire your students to connect with nature and enhance their writing skills with our Non-Fiction Outdoor Writing Activity: Create Your Own Nature Guide....
Outdoor Handwriting Activity | Spelling | Spell and Find
This is a great activity to get those reluctant writers practicing their handwriting and spelling where students will trace and spell the word before heading...
Adjectives Game - Guess The Tree - Descriptive Writing
Sensory tree activity where students use adjectives to describe trees by touch and smell. Fun and interactive way to enhance descriptive writing.
This...
This is a great literacy game to send home with your children, and it's easy to prepare. Each child embarks on a journey to find things they can see, smell,...
These outdoor lessons encourage children to calculate the perimeter, radius, and diameter of puddles, proving that rain is no reason to stop outdoor learning....
Engage your students in practical writing with this fun outdoor instruction activity! Students will select or create a simple task to perform outside,...
Who doesn’t love scavenger hunts? This is a great activity to get your students thinking about adjectives and how they can be used to describe things....
Mix mud and character descriptions with this fun creative writing mud creature activity! Students will use mud and natural materials to design their own...
Character Description Lesson - Mud Creatures - Story Writing
Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures to be used as inspiration for a character in a story. Explain...
Creative Writing Lesson - What Nature Sees -Descriptive Writing
This activity takes students on a walk around your outdoor space, encouraging them to step into the shoes of a chosen animal. They’ll consider what that...
This engaging, hands-on activity teaches students the difference between verbs and adverbs through movement. In an outdoor space, one student reads a verb...
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English ~ Writing - Outdoor Lessons
Outdoor Lesson Ideas for Teachers
Descriptive Writing Activity - Five Senses Walk
This is a nice activity to explore the world around us through our 5 senses. It's great if you're looking at the human body in science or setting descriptions...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Living Things, Script Writing, and Habitats. Cross-Curricular Nature Guide
This is a fantastic cross-curricular activity where students will create a video tour showcasing the nature around your outdoor area. It's perfect for...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Outdoor Persuasive Writing - My Item Is Best - Non-Fiction
Debating is a great way to get students thinking creatively about persuasive language. For this activity students will go and find the most interesting...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Descriptive Writing - Adjectives & Figurative Language - Barefoot Descriptions
This adjectives activity has students walk barefoot outdoors, describing textures with adjectives, similes, and metaphors. Differentiated sheets included. It's...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Outdoor Literacy Challenge Cards: 7 – 9, 10 - 12
This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas. These cards can...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Outdoor Literacy Challenge Cards: 4 - 6, 7 - 9
This pack of outdoor literacy challenge cards contains 20 cards each with a different literacy challenge for a wide range of topic areas for your students...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Creative Writing - This Is Not A Stick...
This is a fun activity to get those imagination juices flowing as well as encouraging creative play and drama. Students will head outside and find themselves...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Cross-Curricular Plants and Ecology Project - Seed Bombs
This is a fantastic project with connections to living things, math, art, and business. Your class will create their own business selling seed bombs, involving...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Handwriting and Spelling Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
Engage reluctant writers with this activity combining handwriting, spelling, and counting. Includes differentiated tracing and outdoor exploration tasks. This...
Premium Downloadages 4-6
Instruction Writing Activity - Compass Treasure Hunt - Non-Fiction
Fun treasure hunt activity where students hide treasure and write instructions using compass bearings. Great for learning navigation and writing skills. Who...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Non-Fiction Outdoor Writing Activity: Create Your Own Nature Handbook
Inspire your students to connect with nature and enhance their writing skills with our Non-Fiction Outdoor Writing Activity: Create Your Own Nature Guide....
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Outdoor Handwriting Activity | Spelling | Spell and Find
This is a great activity to get those reluctant writers practicing their handwriting and spelling where students will trace and spell the word before heading...
Premium Downloadages 4-6
Adjectives Game - Guess The Tree - Descriptive Writing
Sensory tree activity where students use adjectives to describe trees by touch and smell. Fun and interactive way to enhance descriptive writing. This...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Alphabet Game - Description and Senses.
This is a great literacy game to send home with your children, and it's easy to prepare. Each child embarks on a journey to find things they can see, smell,...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9, 10-12
Cross-Curricular Weather Investigation - Poetry, Shape, Measure, Descriptive Writing, Data Handling - Rain Project
These outdoor lessons encourage children to calculate the perimeter, radius, and diameter of puddles, proving that rain is no reason to stop outdoor learning....
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Instruction Writing Activity - How To Guide
Engage your students in practical writing with this fun outdoor instruction activity! Students will select or create a simple task to perform outside,...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Adjectives Scavenger Hunt
Who doesn’t love scavenger hunts? This is a great activity to get your students thinking about adjectives and how they can be used to describe things....
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Mud Creatures Character Description | Descriptive Writing | Ages 4 - 6
Mix mud and character descriptions with this fun creative writing mud creature activity! Students will use mud and natural materials to design their own...
Free Downloadages 4-6
Character Description Lesson - Mud Creatures - Story Writing
Get muddy with this fun activity where your class will create their very own mud creatures to be used as inspiration for a character in a story. Explain...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Creative Writing Lesson - What Nature Sees -Descriptive Writing
This activity takes students on a walk around your outdoor space, encouraging them to step into the shoes of a chosen animal. They’ll consider what that...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Adjectives Outdoor Activity - Scent Tubs
This engaging, hands-on activity teaches students the difference between verbs and adverbs through movement. In an outdoor space, one student reads a verb...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9