Outdoor Education Course

Duration & Fee

5 Days · 25 hours €400
6 Days · 30 hours €480
7 Days · 35 hours €560
10 Days · 50 hours €700
Choose the duration that best fits your Erasmus+ funding and mobility plan.

🇪🇺 100% Erasmus+ funded for eligible applicants

Location

Málaga, Spain

Language

Málaga, Spain

Includes

Course, registration, materials, documents, certificates and coffee breaks.

Outdoor Education

This course trains educators to use outdoor environments and sustainable practices to enhance learning, creativity, and environmental awareness through hands-on, zero-waste, and interdisciplinary methods.

Upcoming Dates

18/01/202708/02/202701/03/202729/03/202719/04/202710/05/202731/05/202721/06/202712/07/202702/08/202723/08/202713/09/202704/10/202708/11/202729/11/2027
Dates listed are course start dates, the finish date depends on your chosen duration. Additional dates may be available upon request.

A hands-on course that moves teaching beyond the classroom walls. Across five days, participants build practical skills for teaching outdoors — from simple games and routines to risk management and designing full outdoor lessons — with a strong focus on environmental awareness and sustainability. Everyone leaves with ready-to-use routines, cross-curricular activity ideas, and their own outdoor lesson plan to bring straight back to their classroom.

WHO IT’S FOR

Teachers, trainers, adult educators, school leaders and administrative staff who want to bring authentic, experience-based learning outdoors. No previous experience needed.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

How to design and lead outdoor lessons that work for any subject
Practical routines, games and activities ready to use from day one
How to manage a group and assess risk safely outdoors
How to connect everyday teaching to environmental awareness and sustainability

WHY THIS COURSE

A fully experiential, learner-centred week — you experience outdoor learning yourself before adapting it for your own classroom, with real field trips, peer exchange, and your own outdoor lesson plan to take home.

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Outdoor Education Course description

📘COURSE OVERVIEW

This teacher training course explores Outdoor Education as a dynamic and experiential learning approach, empowering educators to harness the outdoors to foster creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and student well-being. By using natural and urban settings as extended classrooms, teachers will gain practical tools to create engaging, interdisciplinary, and environmentally aware learning experiences.

Outdoor Education COURSE KEY POINT

🔍 What You’ll Learn

During this course, participants will discover:

Principles and benefits of outdoor education
How to design, manage, and evaluate effective outdoor learning
Tools and strategies to teach across subjects in outdoor environments
Practical routines, games, and resources for teaching outdoors
Environmental awareness, sustainability, and conservation education
Risk management, safety, and legal considerations in outdoor contexts
How to use outdoor learning to boost motivation, behavior, and academic results

Objectives of Outdoor Education Course for teachers

🎯OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, participants will:

Understand the core concepts of Outdoor Education
Learn how to plan and facilitate outdoor activities aligned with curricula
Gain hands-on experience through immersive field activities
Explore methods to foster sustainability and environmental responsibility
Use outdoor spaces to promote collaboration, problem-solving, and reflection
Integrate outdoor education across disciplines
Develop and present an outdoor learning activity
Improve communication skills in a multicultural context
Enhance cooperation and exchange among European educators

Schedule for the Outdoor Education Course

📅SCHEDULE

🔵 Day 1 – Introduction to Outdoor Education
09:00–10:30 | Welcome, team building & introduction
10:30–11:30 | Outdoor Education principles
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–14:00 | Field activity: Town Safari

🟡 Day 2 – Outdoor Activities & Risk Management
09:00–10:30 | Designing outdoor activities
10:30–11:00 | Outdoor learning & risk assessment
11:00–11:30 | Legal & safety protocols
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Field activity: Urban/nature exploration
13:00–14:00 | Reflection on safety & planning

🔵 Day 3 – Curriculum Integration
09:00–10:30 | Teaching methods & materials
10:30–11:30 | Designing cross-curricular activities
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Developing lesson plans
13:00–14:00 | Field activity: Museum or historical site

🟡 Day 4 – Environmental Education & Sustainability
09:00–10:30 | Environmental awareness & sustainability
10:30–11:30 | Planning conservation projects
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Field activity: Impact studies
13:00–14:00 | Discussion: Sustainability in teaching

🔵 Day 5 – Implementation, Presentation & Evaluation
09:00–10:30 | Challenges in outdoor education
10:30–11:30 | Demo lesson design
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Lesson presentations & feedback
13:00–14:00 | Evaluation & certificate ceremony

Outdoor Education COURSE METHODOLOGY

🧠 Methodology

This course is based on experiential and reflective learning, designed to foster personal and professional growth in a supportive, nature-rich environment:

Experiential: Outdoor activities and hands-on workshops
Collaborative: Group tasks encouraging peer exchange and creativity
Reflective: Real-time feedback and discussions to connect theory with practice
Practical: Daily field visits that bring learning to life

CERTIFICATION FOR THE Outdoor Education COURSE

🎓 Certification

At the end of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance which includes:

The course title
Participant name
Dates and location
Duration of total training hours
Overview of course content

Certificates comply with the standards required for Erasmus+ staff training mobility.

Outdoor Education COURSE LEARNING PACK

🎁 What’s Included

5 days of immersive, practical training (25 hours total)
Course materials & digital resources
Welcome package
Erasmus+ documentation support
Certificate of Attendance
Coffee breaks

Registration FOR THE Outdoor Education COURSE

✏️ Registration

You can register in just a few minutes:

📩 Option 1: Fill out our Registration Form.
📧 Option 2: Contact us at info@plus-project.eu and we’ll guide you through the process.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to improve your teaching skills and experience a new city at the same time!