It’s your lucky day to do math outside!
Happy Wednesday to you! It’s Day 13 of “September to Remember”.
Every school day this month, I’m encouraging you to take the learning outside and make this a super-engaging-fun-filled September to remember for your students.
I hope you’ve taken your students out to sing, paint, tell stories, play and improve their memory. But they need to learn math, too!
When I first became the outdoor learning educator at my school, I wanted to ensure my students were exploring math outside. We are an IBO World School, so I got out the PYP Mathematics Scope and Sequence and spent some time thinking about how my students could achieve as many of the learning outcomes in Phase 1 in each strand (Data Handling, Measurement, Number, Pattern & Function and Shape & Space) as possible outside.
This is for those of you who want to see curricular connections. Click here to see just some of the ways the children experience measurement in the outdoor learning environment throughout the school year.
We need a bigger pot for all this food!
The children love digging for the longest worms; seeing who can build the tallest sand tower; reading the thermometer on hot and cold days; and trying to pick up the heaviest, fullest watering can. The children explore concepts of measurement and practice their skills weekly, sometimes daily, both through teacher-facilitated experiences and through their play.
Uh oh! I smell mudpies baking! The chefs are in the kitchen. I’m off to taste the treats they’re creating.
There’s no better place to experience real-world math than in the real world!
The children use real measuring spoons.
Many sizes of cups, bowls, pots and pans help us explore volume.
