Outdoor and Nature Play
UndergraduateLTU-EDU3ONP2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 Apr 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Outdoor and Nature Play
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Design an effective outdoor setting for children's nature play.
- Manage aspects of safety while maximising exploration and free play.
- Identify and document learning emerging from outdoor and nature play.
- Philosophies Behind Nature Play and Practice Examples from Australia and Around the World
- Nature Play Pedagogies
- Outdoor and Nature Play's Impact on Physical Activity and Wellbeing
- Planning and Designing for Effective Outdoor and Nature Play, Including: Risk Management, Inclusion, Technology Integration, and Advocacy
Students in this subject investigate the notion that unstructured play outdoors (nature play) is fundamental to a healthy childhood in that it provides benefits for health, cognitive, social and emotional development and helps to build resilience and creativity. Students also address the proposition that experience in nature as a child may lead to environmental sensitivity and responsibility later in life. Students design effective outdoor settings for children's nature play and manage aspects of safety while maximising exploration and free play. Students identify and document the learning that emerges from outdoor and nature play.
- Diagnostic task (equivalent to 400 words). This assessment task will be undertaken within the first 2 weeks of the term. (10%)
- Case study (equivalent to 1600 words). (40%)
- Nature-based learning environment design and justification (equivalent to 2000 words). (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: EBECEO.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
UndergraduateLAT-ECE-DEG