Outdoor learning 1 30 study points 2005-2006
Outdoor Learning is a method used in schools where parts of the normal school day are moved from the traditional, inside classroom, to the environment outside the classroom.
You will learn how to integrate all school subjects from the curriculum in a cross-curricular way.
The major part of the course is taken up by activities within subjects, such as domestic science, physical education and nature studies. The course is adapted to primary school children (6-13 years).
Outdoor Learning is a comprehensive study course that takes place on two days a week over a period of one year.
Most of the teaching takes place out of doors where the student learns about nature in its own setting and also about the local environment.
Some of the lectures are held indoors.
The course is split into two modules:
Nature in the local environment (12 study points)
Body and health (18 study points)
Learning methods:
Lectures alternate between theory and training in practical skills. An important part of the teaching will occur out in nature, at the seaside, riverside, and in winter, on the ski slopes. This course also includes three, cross-curricular excursions:
Autumn: Cano trip, 3 days
Winter: Ski trip 3 days
Spring: Coastal trip 3 days
Course activities/subjects: Some subjects that are priorities are mentioned below:
Didactics, outdoor life, orienteering, life saving, heart and lung saving, harvesting from natures own larder and preparing food out in nature, nutrition, bird spotting, weather and wind forecasting, plants, animals, animal tracking, winter habitats, motor sensory responses, drilling and composting, physical activity, health, food and motion.
Other activities:
Research Days:
Every year Outdoor Learning students participate in the annual research days that take place in the Autumn. We man our stands on the mountain Fløyen and in town.
http://www.hib.no/forskningsdagene/
International co-operation:
Comenius: "Outdoor Learning. Healthy body - healthy mind".
The students cooperate with classes that are participating in the European Union's project, 'Comenius', as a part of SOCRATES - EU's action orientated programme for education.
Beyond this, at the present time, no joint venture agreement has been drawn up with institutions outside Norway .
However, the course is open for exchanges.
Information concerning practice, project work, syllabus etc can be found on
The Study Program from Bergen University College, Faculty of Education, Outdoor Learning
Updated: 26.06.2009