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COUNCIL OF OUTDOOR LEARNING 
CoOL Toolkit: Content for Outdoor Learning

What is CoOL?

The Council of Outdoor Learning (CoOL) is an EEA initiative that focuses on the design, development, use, and sustainability of outdoor learning environments on school campuses. CoOL provides tips and techniques for those who want to create outdoor classrooms or learning stations, hosts an annual symposium to share resources and strategies for teaching outdoors, curates a collection of outdoor learning activities that are integrated with state standards, and provides professional learning workshops, resources and webinars for teachers and non-formal educators.
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Outdoor Learning Content
What can you teach in an outdoor classroom? Anything you teach indoors! Outdoor learning provides real-world authenticity for investigations, observations, problem solving, modeling, data collection and analysis, argumentation, experimentation, and research. Below are some sample learning experiences for your consideration. 
50 Curated Activities to Engage Students in Outdoor Learning 
Grow your Eco-Handprint
Design & Create a Pollinator Habitat
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Join the City Nature Challenge
Take a Hike
Plant a Garden from Kitchen Scraps
Play Backyard Bingo
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Make a Cloud Viewer
Build a Bee Box
Find Nature Everywhere
Infuse Oil with Herbs
Compost Veggie Scraps
Conduct a Backyard Bio-Blitz
Become a Birder
Make a Daisy Chain Crown
Make a Pine Cone Birdfeeder
Build a Rain Garden
Cast Animal Tracks
Grow a Strawberry and Extract its DNA
Plant Sunflowers to Remove Soil Toxins
Keep a Nature Journal
Become a Budburst Citizen Scientist
Make Soil Donuts
Collect Rocks
Read outside
Build A Fort
Reduce / Refuse Waste
Camp
Invent a Contraption
Go on a Scavenger Hunt
Do a Soil Test
Skip Rocks
Press Flowers
Make Compost with Worms
Grow Milkweed for Picky Eaters (Monarch Caterpillars)
Recognize Poison Ivy
Make a Scale Model of the Solar System
Build Babylegs and Trawl for Microplastics
Make Beads from Recycled Magazines
Make Seed Balls
Mine a Cookie
Grow Your Own Fish Tacos
Grow a Red Cabbage and use it to Test pH
Paint Outside
Explore DRAWDOWN Solutions to Climate Change
Read History in Tree Rings
Make a Time Capsule
Engineer a Curiosity Challenge
Design an Obstacle Course
Grow Giant Veggies
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  • Our Story
    • About EEA
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      • About Env Justice
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        • Advisory Council
        • Board Portal
          • 2019-20 EEA Board & Staff
        • Strategic Plan 2017
      • About Our History
      • About Our Organizational Members
      • About Our Finances
  • Our Work
    • Professional Learning
      • Conferences
        • EEA Annual Conference
        • Outdoor Learning Symposium
        • Pollinator Symposium
        • SEEA Conference
        • NAAEE Conference
    • ATEEG
      • ATEEG: Why Get Certified?
      • ATEEG Certification Advisory Board
      • ATEEG CAB Portal
        • ATEEG Presentation
        • ATEEG CAB Info Packet
        • ATEEG Responsibilities
        • ATEEG Budget
        • ATEEG Framework
        • ATEEG Reports to NAAEE
        • ATEEG Meeting Notes
        • ATEEG Course 1
        • ATEEG Course 2
        • ATEEG Course 3
    • CoOL
      • CoOL RESEARCH on Outdoor Learning
      • CoOL AWARDS & GRANTS
      • CoOL ToolKit ToC
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN - Survey
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN - Map
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN Audits
      • CoOL Toolkit SPACES for Outdoor Learning
      • CoOL Toolkit CONTENT for Outdoor Learning
      • CoOL Toolkit METHODS for Teaching Outside
      • CoOL Toolkit SUSTAIN
      • CoOL Toolkit COVID
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