Place-Based Learning

Going outside helps students focus, and activities for classes from social studies to math can incorporate the natural world.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

"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

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

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

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.

Blogger Suzie Boss highlights how one school used project-based learning to challenge its students to improve their school site.