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Balancing Planet, People & Profit: A New Lens for 21st Century Education
Environmental and sustainability education encourages children to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape...

Alex Moxon
Apr 2, 20193 min read
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Are You "Nature Smart?" How to Awaken Naturalistic Intelligence in Children
Multiple Intelligence Theory In 1983, Multiple Intelligence Theory was first put forth by Professor Howard Gardner in his ground-breaking...

Alex Moxon
Mar 26, 20193 min read
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Top 10 Tips for Outdoor Environmental Teaching
Outdoor environmental education is a brilliant way to engage students with hands-on science and ecological understanding that reinforces...

Alex Moxon
Mar 20, 20193 min read
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5 Simple Ways to Inspire a Love of Nature and the Outdoors Among Children
Children need surprisingly little to develop a love of nature and the outdoors - essentially it's coded into their DNA. Children didn't...

Alex Moxon
Mar 11, 20194 min read
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How to Instill a Love of Learning and Prepare Children for the 21st Century
Once called STEM, STEAM education is growing in popularity worldwide. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and...

Alex Moxon
Mar 8, 20191 min read
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10 Steps to Starting Your Own School Outdoor Education Program
Imagine a world where every school has outdoor education built into the school fabric and ethos. Imagine a school where children are...

Alex Moxon
Mar 7, 20193 min read
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Experiential Education Fosters a Love of Learning Like Nothing Else! Ask Albert Einstein.
In a world where children spend most of their education cooped up in small boxes called classrooms, real-world experiential learning can...

Alex Moxon
Mar 4, 20193 min read
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Youth Everywhere Are Protesting for Urgent Action On Climate Change!
On 23rd January 2019, 16 year old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In...

Alex Moxon
Feb 16, 20193 min read
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Creating Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs through Outdoor Learning
Children growing up in the 21st Century will need to be adaptable, dynamic and creative lifelong learners in a highly uncertain...

Alex Moxon
Feb 14, 20193 min read
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Is Outdoor Education a Privilege of the Wealthy?
I've been thinking about this question for a while now, and I've come to learn the unfortunate truth. There is a burgeoning inequality in...

Alex Moxon
Feb 9, 20196 min read
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"Nature is Boring. I Want My Smart Phone Back!"
Sometimes the older children become, it seems the less interested they become in nature and the outdoors. As an experiential educator in...

Alex Moxon
Feb 4, 20195 min read
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What Is the Future of Outdoor Education?
The concept of modern outdoor education is nothing new. It owes its beginnings to separate initiatives. Organized camping was evident in...

Alex Moxon
Jan 31, 20194 min read
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Let's Scrap Environmental Education & Get Ourselves Off Planet Earth!
In a recent conversation with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) teaching colleague, who is also an avid reader of...

Alex Moxon
Jan 28, 20193 min read
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How to Actively Engage Children in Conservation: A Game of 'Predator-Prey'
So far the focus of my blog posts for Outdoortopia has been on education reform and integrating outdoor and experiential education (OEE)...

Alex Moxon
Jan 20, 20197 min read
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Is It Time to Re-think Outdoor Education for the 21st Century?
Outdoor and Experiential Education (OEE) is the perfect vehicle for developing young people into well-informed global citizens. The kind...

Alex Moxon
Jan 19, 20195 min read
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Best 5 Pedagogical Approaches for Top-notch Sustainability Education
Environmental and sustainability education means incorporating key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for...

Alex Moxon
Dec 29, 20182 min read
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Throw-away Christmas Cheer! What Are We Teaching Our Kids?
For most, Christmas is a time of giving, spending time with family and celebration. Traditionally, it's a celebration of Christ's birth...

Alex Moxon
Dec 13, 20183 min read
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Fear of Liability Must Not Stop Us Getting Children Outdoors!
In recent years, I've actively sought global opportunities to work in outdoor and experiential education roles for youth in various...

Alex Moxon
Dec 10, 20185 min read
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Is Outdoor Play Just a Big Waste of Time?
Some believe that outdoor play for children has little educational value. It's unstructured and has no obvious learning outcomes, you...

Alex Moxon
Nov 25, 20183 min read
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Outdoor Education & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Outdoor education has come to mean many things. It can mean anything from adventure-based learning to environmental education, service...

Alex Moxon
Nov 2, 20184 min read
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