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  2. Outdoor education - Wikipedia

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    The English Outdoor Council, an umbrella body, defines outdoor education as a way for students and teachers to be fully engaged in a lesson, all the while embracing the outdoors. The EOC deems outdoor education as "providing depth to the curriculum and makes an important contribution to students' physical, personal and social education.".

  3. Adventure education - Wikipedia

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    However, student autonomy is considered to be controversial in regards to outdoor adventure educational programs, due to risk management concerns. Yet, it is recommended that the instructors of these types of programs must fully understand the risks of student autonomy prior to implementing them as part of an adventure education program.

  4. Forest kindergarten - Wikipedia

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    In rural areas, and historical times, access to nature has not been a problem. Over the last century, with increasing urbanisation and "nature deficit disorder", there have been many changes in stance on outdoor education. The first forest kindergarten was created by Ella Flautau in Denmark in the early 1950s. The idea formed gradually as a ...

  5. Outdoor recreation - Wikipedia

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    Outdoor recreation involves any kind of activity within an outdoor environment. [4] Outdoor recreation can include established sports, and individuals can participate without association with teams, competitions or clubs. [5] Activities include backpacking, canoeing, canyoning, caving, climbing, hiking, hill walking, hunting, kayaking, and ...

  6. Excursion - Wikipedia

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    An excursion outside Seattle, circa 1887 Early Advantage Montessori School children on excursion. An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes.

  7. Mesocosm - Wikipedia

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    A tomato greenhouse in the Netherlands. The advantage of mesocosm studies is that environmental gradients of interest (e.g., warming temperatures) can be controlled or combined to separate and understand the underlying mechanism(s) affecting the growth or survival of species, populations or communities of interest.

  8. Outdoor Research - Wikipedia

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    In 1982, REI placed the Outdoor Research First Aid Kit on the back cover of its catalog. Within days, all 1,000 kits of the first order sold out. [2] By 1984, Outdoor Research had evolved into the space of protective handwear with the Modular Mitts, one of the first gloves utilizing a layering system with a removable inner liner and external ...

  9. Rock climbing - Wikipedia

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    A 2022 survey by Climbing showed climbers were largely against manufacturing routes on natural outdoor rock on public lands, but were less negative on private lands (or on routes in quarries); they were willing to allow "cleaning" of routes (which some consider manufacturing), and also the repairing of routes (e.g. gluing back broken holds).