Council of Outdoor Learning
​OUTDOOR LEARNING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS & RESOURCES

2019: A Day of Outdoor Education Sessions

• Symposium program

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​2012: The World Is Your Classroom

• Presenter and Session Information
• Woodworking for Birds Resources: Safe Birdfeeders, Seeds for Birds 1, Seeds for Birds 2
• How to Build a Pollinator Garden: Butterfly Plant Worksheets, Books about Gardening and Plants, Planting for Pollinators Resource List, Pollinator Websites
• Tell Your Story: Using social media to share your outdoor learning experiences
• Live Animals in the Classroom: Wildlife Regulations and the Georgia Teacher, Scientific Collecting, Fee Exempt Wildlife Exhibition, Georgia Protected Wildlife and Plants
• Outdoor Learning Resources 101
• Georgia Ecoregions and Soils
• Outdoor Learning on a Shoestring
• Farm to School for Educators: Georgia Organics, Vermont FEED​

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​2011: Leaving Footprints: Natural Paths ​to Learning

• Agenda​
• Entomology for Teachers
• Beautiful School, Beautiful Communities
• P.E.A.K.:  Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids
• 10 Easy Steps to Greening Your Classroom
• Quick and Easy Outdoor Activities
• Air Pollution CSI
• Project WILD
• Show Me the Outdoor Learning ​

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​2010: Get Outdoors! Teaching Locally, Connecting Globally

• Themed Sessions (582 KB PDF)
• General Sessions (7.1 MB PDF)
• Make and Take Sessions (7.2 MB PDF)
• Saturday Workshop: Our Shared Forests (67 KB PDF)

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2009: Growing Fertile Minds

• Farm to School/Agricultural (1.2 MB PDF)
• Gardening (2 MB PDF)
• How to Teach Outdoors (1.4 MB PDF)
• Outdoor Classroom (1.75 MB PDF)
• Mosquitoes and Ticks Brochure (2 MB PDF)
• Snakes of Georgia (1MB PDF)
• Spiders, Snakes, and Ticks - Oh My! (1MB PDF)

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​2008: My Space is Outside!  ​

• ​​Connecting Kids to the World Wide Wonder of the Outdoors (full doc) (8MB PDF)​
• Part 1: Presenter Info; Sessions (742 KB PDF)
• Part 2: Amphibian Monitoring (502 KB PDF)
• Part 3: Alien Invaders; Letterboxing (438 KB PDF)
• Part 4: Eating the Garden (151 KB PDF)
• Part 5: Grant Writing (1.5 MB PDF)
• Part 6: Make & Take (2.3 MB PDF)

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​2007: Tools of the Trade - The Nuts ​and Bolts of Outdoor Classrooms

• ​​Contents and Presenter Info (.7 MB PDF)
• Morning Sessions (2.6 MB PDF)
• Afternoon Long Sessions (1.7 MB PDF)
• Afternoon Short Sessions (1.5 MB PDF)
• Short Sessions, part 2 (1 MB PDF)
• Short sessions, part 3 (1.8 MB PDF)

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​​2006: Leaping Into Green and Healthy Learning - 10 Years Taking Teachers Outside

• Air, Chemical, Energy, IPM (2.3 MB PDF)
• School Grounds (.6 MB PDF)
• Waste Management (2.1 MB PDF)
• Water (2 MB PDF)
• Water & Other Topics (1.5 MB PDF)
• Addendum (.6 MB PDF)

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2005

• Outdoor Classrooms: Teaching Outside the Box (2 MB PDF)