Resources

Articles By Jennifer Baron

Feel like making your own outdoor virtual choice boards for a hybrid blend of green time & screen time? Check out my article in Green Teacher, Summer Edition, 2020. It’s FREE at: Outdoor Virtual Classroom Choice Boards.

Ten Strategies for Strengthening Outdoor Learning At Your School, by Jennifer Baron. Green Teacher, Fall 2020. Email jennifer.baron@rogers.com for the full article.

Math on the Land by Jennifer Baron & Towana Brooks in ETFO Voice Fall 2020

Bend Wellness, The Podcast: Take Me Outside with Jennifer Baron

Short videos to spark natural curiosity. Eco-Inquiry Playlist on YouTube

Resources for Pedagogical Lens behind Eco-Games & Virtual Choice Boards:

• Outdoor Education
• Environmental Inquiry
• Place-Based & Play-Based
• Eco-Action & Youth
• Subject Integrated across all divisions
• Culturally Responsive, Equitable & Inclusive
• Establishing Racial Equity in Environmental Ed
• Intersectional Environmentalism
• Mental Health and Well-Being in Nature
• Green Teacher Magazine: Outdoor Virtual Choice Boards by Jennifer Baron
• Ten Strategies for Strengthening Outdoor Learning At Your School, by Jennifer Baron. Green Teacher, Fall 2020.

More Resources & Ideas to teach your curriculum outside, ecological literacy and for eco-action, from the Early Years to High School!

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Place-Based Education Webinar

Jodi Johnston & Georgina Marucci: Land Based Learning Ojibwe Resources

Land Needs Guardians

Green Teacher Magazine’s Climate Change Education Resource Hub

Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario: Outdoor Learning Tips

Learning for a Sustainable Future’s: Resources for Rethinking

Megan Zeni’s Room to Play

Dr. Hilary Inwood’s Art & Environmental Education

Juliet Robertson’s Creative Star Learning

First Nations, Metis and Inuit Education Association of Ontario, Resources (You need to make a username, but it’s free to do so and the resources are AMAZING!)

Pathway Project to Stewardship and Kinship, Peterborough, Ontario

EcoSchools Canada for Environmental Leadership & Eco-Action Projects

Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario & Ontario Teachers’ Federation: Assessment for Outdoor Learning

Learning for a Sustainable Future for Environmental Lessons and Guides

Toronto District School Board – Get Outside Month Lessons 

Toronto District School Board – Take Math Outside & Online Webinar

Zinn Education Project – Climate Justice Education Materials

TDSB EcoSchools – “Eco Racism in the Parks” webinar with Jaqueline Scott discussing Outdoor Education, Environmental Education and Racial and Social Justice. 

Centre for Ecological Literacy: Ecological Education Resources

Finally, here are some of my favourite books to spark Eco-Inquiry!