Ulsmåg Skole

   To have a better opinion and more information about how to use outdoor education in schools, we have visited the 2th grade of Ulsmåg Skole. We had the opportunity to visit them twice and we experienced two school days in the nature working by outdoor learning.

1^st day: Stone age project.

   In the Norwegian curriculum, LK-06, it is possible to find the Stone Age as a mandatory content. This topic may be worked either at the classroom or in an outdoor base. In this school, the teacher has decided to work it by doing activities in a park close to the school called Øvsttun.

   Activities as make jewelry, build a cabin or paint on stones simulate the most known activities done during the Stonge Age.

First, they watched a film about the Stone Age, made by students from other year and then the pupils of 2^nd grade of Ulsmåg start to build their own Stone Age place.

2^nd day: Maths in the park.

   Taking advantage of such a sunny day, the children leaded by the teachers walk from the school to Øvsttun park, but this time maths are going to be worked instead of the stone age.  Basic geometry, additions, subtractions and multiplication are worked during the school day.

   Here the pictures of these wonderful days. They have been really profitable and useful for the pupils because they have learnt a lot but, at the same time, also they have so much fun that they will never forget that. We will never ever forget those days neither.