SUSTAINABLE LEARNING AREAS
A Sustainable Learning Area (SLA) turns an outdoor classroom into a Sustainability focussed, interactive outdoor learning area, full of S.T.E.M. teaching aids and endless learning opportunities!
Our SLA’s combine habitat creation, permaculture & water wise gardening to create child friendly, engaging, sustainable spaces that foster a care for the natural world. These playful ‘learning landscapes’ teach children about nature, soils, rainfall, habitat and food production while providing an interdisciplinary learning link to a much wider range of learning possibilities.
What are the benefits of a Sustainable Learning Area?
There’s a long list of benefits for your Outdoor Learning Environment:
- Allows Children to Learn about Nature while being in Nature
- Allows for extracurricular activities such as Garden Club. This can connect and engage the Community.
- Gives structure to outdoor classes.
- Creates a visually pleasing area that Children will want to learn in.
- Creates project based Learning possibilities.
- Creates break out spaces for a whole class, small group and individual learning spaces out in the fresh air.
- Learn through doing with hands on learning opportunities.
- Connects with Sustainability as a cross curricular priority in the syllabus.
- Allows for interdisciplinary learning by displaying a link between subjects.
- Provide tools for learning – Stingless bee hive, nest boxes, rain gauges, scales, etc.
- Creates much needed urban habitat for Native species, beneficial insects and pollinators
