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Children are now so familiar with electronic devices that outdoors might feel like the last refuge away from screens. However, ICT can offer new perspectives on outdoor learning and play, and it is worth exploring how to enrich the ICT curriculum by taking the devices outdoors and becoming physically active with them.
1: DAY IN THE LIFE
As a whole group, tour your outdoor space, taking note of doorways, gates, windows, exits and other places of interest. Discuss what happens in each of these places: for example: mums and dads arrive to drop off children; older children come out to play; the lunch van delivers food; the postie arrives. What else do children think might happen? Prompt them with ideas about animals, visitors, litter blowing in, cars driving past…
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