Let’s go outside : exploring the ways in which students use a newly re-wilded school ground to understand and experience nature

This is a report of a graduating project that involved a qualitative action-based research inquiry where children take on the role of co-researchers. It explores the ways in which we (students and teacher) used a newly re-wilded school ground to understand and experience nature. Throughout the school year, the nature-based inquiries conducted by students were documented in teacher journals, student artwork, student writings, and nature photographs. The Photovoice method was modified to develop a sense of wonder about the natural world. Situated in the research literature of ecology, eco-literacy, nature and place-based learning, it tells the story of taking students outside on a regular basis to reconnect with their home, the natural world. It is an example of how home economics can be integrated at the elementary level of schooling.Education, Faculty ofCurriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department ofUnreviewedGraduat