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For anyone leading outdoor learning

Teach with Nature.

Ready-to-lead outdoor lessons for any educator, right outside your classroom.

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Free for teachers. Open source. No child accounts or profiles. Works on any device, and especially well on an iPad.

Children holding red cherries in their open hands outdoors
A circular bird’s nest space woven from branches with painted log seats
Botanical prints on fabric beside painted wood slices on an outdoor table
Nature Class in practice

An example day in London

LondonAutumnRain

Life detectives

What's living in our grounds?

Count everything that's alive within ten steps.

Outside · 20 minutes · looking and listening

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What is
Nature Class?

Bring learning outside.

Nature Class empowers any adult to facilitate outdoor learning. Ready-to-lead lessons, words to guide you and activities to explore together.

Introducing Nature Class

Watch on YouTube ↗

How it works

Ready to lead, in three steps.

Preview your lesson, introduce it to the class, then head outside together.

  1. Step 1

    Preview a lesson adapted for today.

    Hyperlocal outdoor learning, shaped by your location, the season, the weather and the life nearby. See what’s planned before you begin.

    Before class

    Preview lesson

    Spoken walkthrough

    Pre-reading

    What to bring and where to go

    Conditions
    Safety
    Print

    With your class

    Introduce today’s lesson
    The lesson menu
    A child’s printable animal mask, ready to decorate with leaves
  2. Step 2

    Introduce the lesson.

    Bring the class into the story with pictures, questions and a shared activity. The interactive guide gives you words to start and prompts that invite children to join in.

    An example day in London

    LondonAutumnRainLife nearby

    A lesson for this day

    Life detectives

    What's living in our grounds?

    Outside · 20 minutes

    Robin, one of the living things children can look for

    Lesson preview

    Life detectives
    An oak tree for the class to look at together
    Oak · Image sources
  3. Step 3

    Run it outside. Done.

    The words and teacher’s notes are there when you need them. Follow the prompts and explore together.

    Works exceptionally well on your tablet.

    Outside See

    Life detectives

    What can you see?

    just for you

    Encourage children to look up, down, under...

    Children looking closely at plants and grass outdoors, one holding a magnifying glass

Rain or shine

Every lesson, adapted for today.

What is living in your region this week, the habitats your grounds have, today’s conditions and the safety guide for your region and month all go into the lesson. The words, the order and the time stay the same, so you always know what you are leading.

Your place + The season + Today’s weather + What is living here = Today’s lesson

Three mornings, three notes for the teacher:

  • A child-style painting of a rainy park with autumn trees, an umbrella and a clock tower in the distance

    LondonAutumnRain

    Wellies and close to shelter. Rain brings the worms up.

  • A child-style painting of a sunny flower meadow with bees, a red sun, green hills and a small house

    Los AngelesSpringFull sun

    Plan for shade and water, and keep it short.

  • A child-style painting of a snowy mountain scene with evergreens, a red house, animal tracks and painted animals

    VermontWinterSnow

    Coats and gloves, and keep everyone moving.

Try today’s lesson for your school

Free, open and private

Free to use. Open source. Private by design.

Free for teachers

No card, no trial clock. An email address is the whole account, and the lesson for your grounds is ready.

An open source project

The teacher runtime is AGPL-licensed. Anyone can read how a lesson is chosen and what the app does with what you type.

No child accounts

There are no child accounts and no child profiles. Your class’s location is used for the weather, the season and what is living in your region. Nothing else.

What you get

Every lesson is prepared. You lead it.

A term of outdoor lessons for your class, written to be led by a class teacher with no nature training. And the things around the lesson that make it work on a wet Tuesday.

  • A fully prepared lessonLearning objectives, glossary, teacher’s notes and the hazards for your region and month. A few minutes of reading and you are ready.
  • A teleprompter on your tablet or phoneOne line at a time, with a timer, and it resumes where you stopped. Look at the children, glance down for the next line.
  • Play aloudTap any spoken line and the lesson says it for you.
  • An interactive children’s boardPictures of what is living in your region this week, with a line to read out, for the class to gather round.
  • Teacher’s assistantAI that knows this lesson. Make it simpler, add movement, add challenge, or type a child’s question and get an answer you can say back.
  • A print packThe script on A4, the child’s sheet, cards to clip to yourself and cards to hold up.
  • Lessons mapped to your curriculum objectivesNational Curriculum and NGSS links, printed on the script.
  • Circle time and minutes outsideClose the lesson with the children’s reflections, and log the minutes outside per class, per term. One number for your school.
Browse the curriculum
A tyre swing hanging from a tree beside a den made from branches

What it changes

What half an hour outside does for a class.

  • Calmer classroomsTeachers report better focus and less disruption in the hours after a session. The regulation carries back inside.
  • Children who struggle indoors thrive outsideSensory, kinaesthetic and neurodiverse learners often come alive in nature. The outdoor space meets them where they are.
  • Connection that compoundsWeek after week, children build a relationship with the land around their school.

Who it’s for

Nature Class for schools and families.

A circular bird’s nest space woven from branches with painted log seats

For schools

Make nature part of everyday school life.

Prepared lessons every teacher can lead on your own grounds, with minutes outside recorded by class and term.

Explore Nature Class for schools
Adults and children exploring plants together in a raised garden bed

For parents

See nature through their eyes.

Lesson plans, background notes and pictures for a park, a street tree or your garden. You learn alongside them.

Explore Nature Class for parents
A child’s handwritten page about clouds, trees and the sea with painted trees, a sun and a rainbow

The long outcome

Every child becomes a guardian of our earth.

They know, care for and steward the living world they belong to.

See what children learn Explore the curriculum

Ready when the class is

Ready to take your class outside?

Free for teachers. The lesson for your grounds is ready today.

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Partner with Nature Class

Already teach outside? Bring your programme in.

If you already run sessions outdoors, Nature Class can carry them to class teachers everywhere, grounded to each school’s own grounds and day.

  • Forest school
  • Outdoor training programmes
  • Scouts and guides
  • Holiday camps
  • Bushcraft
  • Farm and wildlife visits
  • Nature reserves
  • Museums and gardens
  • Environmental charities
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How it was made

Shaped with teachers, outdoor educators and subject experts.

Created by
Rewyld

Nature Class is made by Rewyld, a nature technology company helping people learn from and connect with the living world.

Educational expertise by
Plantenvironment

More than twenty years of hands-on urban environmental education.

Supported by
Assembly Code

A nonprofit incubator and steward for public interest software. Nature Class was built in its first cohort, 2026.