Preschool Beyond Walls: Blending Early Childhood Education and Nature-Based Learning

Children are spending less time being outside in nature, playing, imagining, and learning about their surroundings. Instead, they re spending more time with tablets, televisions, and overly structured routines. Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences.

Learn how to develop and implement a nature-based curriculum to support children s optimal learning, from start to finish. Whether you re creating a new curriculum or transitioning from a traditional approach, you will learn how to: 

• Create a program philosophy
• Infuse nature into all aspects of your program
• Prepare teachers for a nature-centered approach
• Implement curriculum and pedagogy that emphasize inquiry-based learning through play and hands-on discovery
• Maintain high-quality early childhood practices that support children s development 

• Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning
• A Forest Days Handbook: Program Design for School Days Outside
• Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World
• Nature-Based Preschool Professional Practice Guidebook
• Nature-Based Learning for Young Children: Anytime, Anywhere, on Any Budget
• Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool
• Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
• Play The Forest School Way: Woodland Games and Crafts for Adventurous Kids
• Wonder Art Workshop: Creative Child-Led Experiences for Nurturing Imagination, Curiosity, and a Love of Learning
• A Year of Forest School: Outdoor Play and Skill-building Fun for Every Season