Outside Learning Environment

The activity to be conducted is to be completed in an outside environment. In this instance, it will be completed in the student’s backyard or at the local park, where there is a flat concrete surface to bounce the balls. If this activity was undertaken in a school setting, it would be completed at the school’s basketball courts or the flattest surface available at the time. The learning environment therefore would be outside. As Arthur et al (2015) argues outside learning settings are “spaces where children can reconnect to the natural environment” (p. 365). By employing this activity in an outside environment, it allows the child to explore the world in which they live in whilst learning at the same time.

The child is a 5-year-old student