Most of the UK environment has been affected by man in some way or another
Learning outside the classroom in the natural environment can encompass a range of places or habitats.
These can include: school grounds, local parks, allotments, wasteground, hedges, walls, gardens, reserves, woodland, country parks, farmland, zoos, botanic gardens, quarries, cliffs, coastal areas, ponds, rivers, moorlands and mountains.
Of course, very few, if any, of the places listed are actually natural; the majority, if not all, of the UK environment has been directly or indirectly affected by man in some way or another.
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