🌿 What If the Forest Was Your Classroom? 🌿

Imagine if the best teaching strategy wasn’t in a book… but beneath your feet, rustling in the leaves, buzzing in the air, and whispered by a curious child asking “Why do worms wiggle?”

At Storykate, I believe learning comes alive when we slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the world around us.

That’s why O love these powerful teaching and learning strategies inspired by nature pedagogy and thought leaders like Carson, Moss, Rautio, and Pelo. From walking with children (Malone, 2019) to attuning with animal kin (Young & Bone, 2020), these approaches invite us to teach with the land—not just on it.

✨ Some of our favourites:

• Observation of Nature – Rachel Carson taught us to see wonder in the smallest things.
• Slow Play – Honour the rhythm of childhood.
• Sensing Ecologically – What if we taught through sound, smell, and soil?
• Collective Inquiry – Learning is more powerful when it’s shared.
• Oral Storytelling – Our first teaching method, and still one of the most powerful.

These aren’t just strategies. They’re invitations to be more present, more playful, and more purposeful in how we teach.

💬 Which one speaks to you today? Tell me in the comments.