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[eac02]

Since the weather is so nice, I would like to take my afterschool class outside. Has anyone had success conducting their classes outside? What did you do? Any advice or good activities?

I teach at a middle school, the class is usually around 6-8 kids, mixed levels.

[meursault]

I haven't done this yet, but since I'm quickly running out of ideas to keep them occupied I may have to consider it.

I guess you could do a scavenger hunt...?

[AaronDiesel]

Here's a couple things you can do.

1. Tour guide. The students are tour guides and the teacher's the clueless foreigner. Students guide the teacher around the school explaining what stuff is and so on.

2. Variation of the desert island survivor game. Tell the students that a helicopter is going to pick them up from school and drop them on a desert island where they'll live for a month. Students roam around the school and make a list of things they can use to survive.

Of course you can do the usual "I spy" stuff or the infinite variations of it.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I did a photo-scavenger hunt with my Saturday CA class (14 students, grades 1-3 MS) that went very well. I gave them a list of 50 items and they had to go around the school and school grounds taking a pic of as many things on the list as they could find. I let them get their phones from their HR teachers, most of which have both camera and dictionary, so it was quite easy for them to do. Most of them really got into it.

[Fishead soup]

[Zulethe]

I played hide and seek/kick ball/red rover/kick the can. They really loved kick the can.

[RufusW]

[harlowethrombey]

Yes! Scavenger hunts are great!

Additionally, have the students create their own lists of things to do/take pictures of for the other team(s).

Create an 'obstacle' course (at each station they must do something: spin around in a circle, jump really high 6 times, do 20 push-ups, etc.). Tell one student the directions for each station and then have them explain it to the other students.

Play 'I Spy'.

Play freeze tag. To unfreeze themselves the students must answer a vocab/grammar question.

Sit in a circle under a blossoming pear tree and read them shakespeare. Have some take photos while 'Dead Poets Society' music is playing.