The Role of Play and the Outdoors in Education with Dr. Shannon Kell

Dr. Shannon Kell, associate professor at Mount Royal University, joins Jamie to discuss the benefits to both students and teachers of being outside and connecting with nature. Dr. Kell shares ways to gradually incorporate the outdoors into your teaching practice and lessons learned from the (literal and figurative) field of outdoor education.

Additional Resources:

• Childhood by Nature
• Take Me Outside
• Facebook groups: search “Nature Resources” and/or “Nature Learning”