WHAT is Nature Class?
Whilst enjoying the outdoors, collecting materials and investigating the natural world, kids are encouraged through science, art and crafts and creative social play, to increase their Eco Literacy as well as make memories and important connections with nature. Sessions are approximately 2 hours. Half the time is spent exploring a local natural environment, half the time will be spent at an indoor or outdoor classroom working on a craft activity related to the theme for the day.
WHO is Nature Class for?
Nature Class is for children 4-12 years of age. Children under 9 years are required to be accompanied by an adult/family member. Nature class is also for family groups that include a mixture of adult and children.
CURRICULUM
HOW we developed Nature Class
Nature Class combines experience developing and running workshops, programming and recreational activites by our founding team members in Iskandar Puteri, JB and KL who then engaged in formal training with Forest School methods.
With this foundation, we engaged college graduates in Environmental sciences and Parks and recreations at Edible Park to develop the curriculum and weekly programming that would become Nature Class. We also engaged with arts and craft based talent particular to nature based learning.
Interactions with children, families and volunteers from a broad range of local and expat communities further helped to fine tune the program to be both locally aware yet internationally relevant. Nature Class has been run in a variety of gardens, public parks and urban settings.
WHY we developed Nature Class
We are seeing a global deficit in nature and unsupervised play in children that is affecting their development and requires urgent addressing. We are also seeing a deterioration in local knowledge of our own flora, landscape and wildlife impacting children’s basic eco literacy and understanding of the world around them.
Nature Class instills knowledge, creates memories in nature that develops empathy in children towards the landscape and wildlife that they live in whilst improving social bonds while learning and playing together with other children.
WHEN is Nature Class available?
We are currently developing sites and scheduling for Nature Class to be made available on a regular basis sometime in mid to late 2025. Please become a free subscriber to this publication to keep informed for upcoming dates. Paid subscribers will have early access to content and learning tools which will be used for our classes.