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Back to Nature Network – December 21, 2012
By Back to Nature Network
The Back to Nature Network teacher’s guide, "Into Nature", is a unique teachers’ guide that enables the teaching of all Ontario school curriculum subjects outdoors in nature on a regular basis. Content of the guide includes logistics, resources and learning experiences for teaching in nature. All learning experiences are linked to Ontario curriculum documents and include: Nature 101, a series of five phases to move from the indoor classroom to the outdoor learning space; fifty Nature2Go activities; and full lessons that last one class period or more. Download the English-language version of Into Nature. All materials contained in Into Nature…
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