What is an Outdoor Classroom?

Before learning about outdoor classrooms, the only outdoor classroom I had ever heard of was the one being build at Seneca College King Campus. I had the pleasure of having a class out there in my first semester of the Child Development program, and it was absolutely amazing experience.

Senecas outdoor classroom at the beginning 

Senecas outdoor classroom during construction


Here are some pictures 

of different types of outdoor 

classrooms for children that I found on the 

interweb.

Here is a like to an article written by Eric Nelson titled The outdoor classroom: “No Child Left Inside”. I find this article really informative as well as important as it explains why children need to be closer to nature and why the outdoor environment is so beneficial to children, their world and their development. 

https://secure.ccie.com/library/5017140.pdf