Shortly after the school year started, fifth-grade students at Fairview Elementary School in District 57 took a field trip to Sunrise Lake Outdoor Education Center in Bartlett. At the event, students ...

Structured challenges in nature foster teamwork, independence, and leadership, showing that the best lessons often happen outside the classroom.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Students learn ice fishing as part of their leadership and outdoor survival ...

Stomping through puddles, scrambling over fallen logs and digging in the dirt with sticks may not sound like traditional educational activities, but they are core parts of the curriculum in “forest ...

In a world in which structured activity (Pynn; Watchman), resumé building, and indoor tendencies (Cleland) abound—and outdoor play has proven to be the safest way to play due to pandemic ...

One might be tempted to think that an outdoors-based school would cancel classes just as much, if not more, than its brick-and-mortar counterparts because of inclement weather. But AdventureMe’s ...

Just a short drive from campus, the forests, lakes, and mountains of central and northern New York have long served as an ...