Place-Based Learning

A veteran teacher and author discusses how to bring fieldwork into your project-based learning curriculum.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, an award-winning school has been the catalyst for a district turnaround after a 20-year decline.

A struggling district expands the concept of the school campus—using a museum, a zoo, and the city to teach its students.

An outdoor education program builds community and culture, raises expectations and standards, increases connection between students, and develops positive associations around school and the outdoors.

See how students investigate real issues in their communities—and check out an e-book on how to adopt this type of program.

Connecting learning to students’ surroundings—the buildings, the landscape—covers content goals and builds community pride.

When teachers collaborate on projects across subjects, they can drive engagement in all of their classes.

Taking kids outside—whatever environment your school is in—provides a new path to engagement in learning.

Two Canadian experiential leadership programs usher students into the great outdoors to pique their academic curiosity while enhancing their physical and mental health.

Edutopia blogger Monica Burns proves that technology has a place in the great outdoors with her list of iPad apps to help kids identify birds and trees, navigate with maps, tie knots, and explore national parks.

"All I needed during middle school was to feel a part of something, and connecting to my community brought me that." -- Grace Whitmore, Hood River Middle School alumna

A project- and placed-based learning school learns to use cutting-edge technology in the classroom while maintaining a close relationship to its stunning natural setting.

On a family farm, parents teach their kids STEM skills through their farmwork.

Kids in Waldkindergarten, also known as forest kindergarten, are building fires and braving the snow. And they're all the better for it.

When you offer students extra credit to take field trips without you, you give them agency to bring related classroom content alive in new ways.