I. Nature as a Teacher: Empowering Educators to Embrace the Living Classroom

Are you ready to step outside and let nature be your co-teacher?

This hands-on professional development workshop invites early years educators, forest school leaders, and K–3 teachers to explore how outdoor spaces inspire curiosity, creativity, and connection.

In this workshop, you will:
•  Discover how unstructured play fosters observation, resilience, and collaboration.
•  Learn simple, low-prep strategies to weave literacy, math, and science into outdoor time.
•  Reflect on your own relationship with nature and how it shapes your teaching.
•  Gain practical tools for planning, documenting, and sharing outdoor learning.
•  Connect with like-minded educators and build community.


Workshop Features:
•  Hosted outdoors in a local nature setting.
•  Interactive stations + take-home resource booklet.
•  Direct connections to the BC Early Learning Framework and Indigenous ways of knowing.
•  Certificate of participation for professional development hours.


For: Early Childhood Educators, Kindergarten–Grade 3 Teachers, Forest/Nature Program Leaders, Homeschool Educators, and Education Assistants.

Format: 2-hour or half-day options
Pricing: Contact below

 Contact: admin@theoutdoorlibrarian.com 
for more info!

 Contact: admin@theoutdoorlibrarian.com for more info!

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II. Numeracy in Nature: Deepening Mathematical Thinking Through Outdoor Exploration

In this workshop, you will:
•  Discover curriculum-linked provocations using natural materials to explore number sense, patterns, geometry, and measurement.
•  Experience movement-based, sensory-rich math activities that support diverse learners.
•  Learn strategies for embedding numeracy into outdoor play and seasonal change.
•  Reflect on embodied math—counting, sorting, measuring, and problem-solving with nature as your co-teacher.
•  Take home a resource booklet filled with math invitations and documentation tools.

Workshop Features:
•  Outdoor, interactive math stations with natural materials
•  Direct connections to BC Curriculum outcomes & Core Competencies
•  Rooted in Indigenous perspectives and storytelling
•  Certificate of participation for professional development hours

Step outside and explore how math becomes meaningful, joyful, and connected to place.

 Contact: admin@theoutdoorlibrarian.com for more info!

Math is everywhere—woven into leaves, patterns, shadows, and stones. Numeracy in Nature is a hands-on professional development workshop that helps educators bring math to life outdoors, connecting BC Curriculum outcomes with child-led, nature-based learning.

Designed for Kindergarten–Grade 3 teachers, ECEs, and outdoor program leaders, this workshop explores how to shift math from worksheets to wonderment—building confidence, competence, and curiosity through real-world connections.

Perfect for: K–Grade 3 Teachers, Early Childhood Educators, Forest & Nature Program Leaders, Learning Support Teachers, and Education Assistants

Duration: 2-hour or half-day options
Pricing: Contact below

 Contact: admin@theoutdoorlibrarian.com 
for more info!