Connecting Learning Journeys Across Borders

Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture and Art
2025-08-25 08:00 - 2025-08-29 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Erasmus, Rolfsgade 91, Esbjerg, 6700, Denmark
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Learning outcome – objectives
The course Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art will help participants to:

Integrate art into teaching to support students’ well-being.
Plan and conduct lessons in urban environments.
Combine learning beyond the classroom with “ordinary” classroom activities.
Use playful approaches to foster motivation, creative thinking, and learning.
Experience and implement activities in nature, applying various subjects.
Design, plan, and share educational activities inspired by the environment.
Understand the pedagogical and social benefits of learning beyond the classroom

Monday

Introduction and presentation to the course beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art
Icebreaker activities
An out-door activity
Welcome to a new European network; presentation from each participant (school / organization, culture, country – max 5 minutes)

Tuesday

Introduction to a day at the museum with focus on art
Bringing art into teaching and education by using a museum as space of possibilities
Encountering and exploring professional visual art with students

Wednesday
We will travel together by ferry to the Island of Fanø

Introduction to a day on Fanø with focus on Nature and art – connection to the landscape through sketching.
How nature and landscape offer a space for teaching and interpretation
Language, mathematics or aesthetics – observing personal experience with our environment
A walk on Fanø with paper and pen – experiencing history and connection to the unique nature in the Wadden Sea (a UNESCO world heritage site)

Thursday

Introduction to Playful Learning.

Focus on how playful approaches can contribute to motivation, creative thinking, and learning
How can the outdoor environment be actively incorporated into the planning of activities and teaching?

Friday

Reflection on new methodology focusing on beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art, structures, new European network
An outdoor activity
Evaluation, feedback
Presentation and distribution of “certificate of attendance”

When you enroll to an ErasmusConnect course:
Number of lessons

25 lessons / 5 days

Price

Euro 450 (Excl VAT)
including 2 x lunch
ferry-ticket to the island of Fanø
entrance to museum
bus-transport (1 day to Esbjerg-location)
Erasmus-documentation (“certificate of attendance”, signatures on learning agreement etc.)

Participants

a minimum of 10 participants (and max 18)

In case of cancellation

In case of cancellation 1 month before the start of the course 50% of the fee will be refunded.
In case of cancellation less than 1 month before the start of the course the fee will not be refunded.
In case of unforeseen circumstances the participants are expected to be covered by their own insurance.

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