Course Content

This dynamic professional development course will reignite your passion for connecting children with the outdoors. We'll dive deep into nature play pedagogy, uncovering its incredible power to foster holistic development and well-being. Get ready to explore practical approaches and strategies to integrate nature into your Early Childhood Education and Care setting, transforming everyday learning into an adventure. Let's rediscover the magic of the outdoors and unlock the benefits of nature play together!

  • Module 1: The Benefits of Children Being In Nature

    Discover the benefits of nature play for young children's holistic development. Explore how nature play pedagogical practices align with and support the principles and learning outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) V2.0.

  • Module 2: Risky Play in Nature

    Discover the benefits of incorporating risky play into early childhood education and care settings. Learn strategies that support children to become active participants in assessing and managing their own risks.

  • Module 3: Tuning Into Your Senses

    Explore the 8 sensory systems and how engagement with nature can stimulate and support the development of each sense in young children. Discover nature-based experiences that intentionally engage children's senses through play, fostering deeper connections with the natural world and supporting holistic development.

  • Module 4: Natural Resources & Caring For Our Land

    Discover ways to ethically source and utilise natural, play-based resources within early childhood settings. Understand human impact on the natural environment and apply practices that promote care for the natural world.

  • Module 5: Creating A Designated Nature Play Space

    Identify and evaluate key considerations for designing a designated nature play space that meets the developmental needs of young children. Discover ways to establish and enhance a nature play space within an early childhood education and care setting.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Nature Pedagogy

    2. Acknowledgement to country

    3. Your Workbook

    1. What is nature play pedagogy and the benefits for young children?

    2. Module 1 Quiz

    1. The benefits of risky play and the ways children can be active participants in assessing their own risks

    2. Video example of children assessing their own risky play within the nature play learning envirmonment

    3. Module 2 Wrap Up

    1. Tuning into your senses when engaging in nature play

    2. Video example of children engaging in their vestibular system in nature

    3. Turning into your senses when engaging in nature play continued

    1. Natural resources and caring for our land

    1. Creating your designated nature play space

    2. Designing a nature play space

    3. Nature Pedagogy in Early Educaiton Quiz

About this course

  • $149.00
  • 16 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

Your Presenter: Lizzie Saregent

Lizzie has been an Early Childhood Educator for 20 years. She has a Bachelor of Teaching 0-5 years and a Masters of Special and Inclusive Early Childhood Education.

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