Learning Outcomes:

• Identify strategies for incorporating SEL into outdoor adventure programs.

• Analyze the benefits of SEL in an adventure-based learning environment.

• Develop a lesson plan integrating SEL with OAE activities.

Suggested Readings:

• Molyneux, T. M., Zeni, M., & Oberle, E. (2023). Choose your own adventure: Promoting social and emotional development through outdoor learning. Early Childhood Education Journal, 51(8), 1525-1539.
• Orson, C. N., McGovern, G., & Larson, R. W. (2020). How challenges and peers contribute to social-emotional learning in outdoor adventure education programs. Journal of Adolescence, 81, 7-18.

Videos/Podcasts:

• Developing Resilient Youths Through Outdoor Education

• Social and Emotional Learning Game Activity for Teaching SOCIAL SKILLS!

Quiz:

• How does outdoor adventure education promote SEL?

• List at least three SEL activities that can be incorporated into an OAE program.