The Importance of Outdoor Education

Why is outdoor education so neglected and yet so important in 21st Century teaching and learning?  Outdoor education fosters community connection, teamwork, environmental sensitivity, sense of place, and problem-based learning.  Join Geographer Joseph Kerski as we explore the value that outdoor education brings to STEM, geography, mathematics, and other disciplines, from primary to university level.  Examine how you can incorporate field methods and technology into the investigation of macroinvertebrates, weather, water quality, historical homes, pedestrian and vehicle counts, noise, slope and aspect, landforms, and much more.  Watch examples of these techniques here:  https://www.youtube.com/user/geographyuberalles/search?query=field.  

Fieldwork in the Mojave Desert.

Fieldwork in the Mojave Desert.