The support of Outdoor education for elementary school pupil’s s learning

This paper is written for elementary school teachers and teacher students. The paper focuses on Outdoor education as support for elementary school children’s learning. An overview of the subject Outdoor education was performed to see how it can be used in school to support the pupils learning in science studies. Different scientific articles and books about Outdoor education were reviewed to get a reliable answer to the main question in this paper. The result shows support that may be beneficial for pupil’s learning outdoors. An example that illustrates this is that the pupils' sensory impressions become amplified when they are taught outside. The senses act as an important part of the support by improving the children’s memory and ability to concentrate. Another example is Outdoor education’s ability to concretize different scientific concepts. Outdoor education also gives the students a meaningful approach to the subject that helps them to develop knowledge within science studies. The conclusion shows that Outdoor education should be used to a large extent in the ordinary lessons in science education to support students' learning ability