Experiential Learning Activity Resources from Experiential Learning Depot:
What are some examples of experiential learning activity ideas? You've come to the right place! Here you'll find classroom experiential learning activities and teaching tools!
Experiential education is student-led, gets learners involved, is personalized, collaborative, and includes feedback and reflection as essential components of the experience. Experiential Learning Depot's resources provide the materials for educators to facilitate these experiences in the classroom, in homeschool environments, in the community, on field trips, traveling around the world, and beyond.
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Note: The ready-made resources that I create are geared toward middle and high school students. The materials, especially the experiential learning tool kits, can be adapted to work for younger students.
Experiential education is student-led, gets learners involved, is personalized, collaborative, and includes feedback and reflection as essential components of the experience. Experiential Learning Depot's resources provide the materials for educators to facilitate these experiences in the classroom, in homeschool environments, in the community, on field trips, traveling around the world, and beyond.
Follow Experiential Learning Depot on TPT for resource updates, new resource alerts, and free offers.
Note: The ready-made resources that I create are geared toward middle and high school students. The materials, especially the experiential learning tool kits, can be adapted to work for younger students.
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Free Experiential Teaching Tools to Get You Started
Before diving into Experiential Learning Depot's resources, grab a few of our free experiential learning activity tools to help you get started and organized.
I highly suggest the following blog posts that complement these free classroom experiential learning activity tools: Experiential Learning Defined: What Does Classroom Experiential Learning Look Like?, and Five Innovative and Engaging Experiential Learning Activity Types.
Getting Started with Experiential Learning Activities
Experiential Learning Depot helps you become a leader in experiential education in your school or home learning environment. I highly recommend our classroom experiential learning activity tool kits bundle, which goes along perfectly with the free experiential learning activity tools mini-bundle mentioned above. This bundle is perfect for teachers looking to save time and incorporate innovative learning practices into their curriculum.
One teaching strategy that falls into the experiential learning category is self-directed project-based learning, which comes highly recommended.
One teaching strategy that falls into the experiential learning category is self-directed project-based learning, which comes highly recommended.
Self-Directed Project-Based Learning Activity Resources
Browse our blog posts on self-directed learning, starting with What is Self-Directed Learning?
College and Career Readiness Resources
An essential piece of experiential learning is developing job ready career skills that are relevant and important for the 21st-century work place. Some of my most popular resources among teachers and students are college and career readiness based. Take a look!
Take a look at this blog post, 10 Resume Builders for High School Students, which goes well with the resume-builder project based learning bundle, and our senior project experience blog series.
For assistance managing senior projects, grab my free high school senior project implementation spreadsheet. It lines up directly with project checkpoints included in the senior experience resource below.
For assistance managing senior projects, grab my free high school senior project implementation spreadsheet. It lines up directly with project checkpoints included in the senior experience resource below.
Senior Experience: "An excellent set of resources for teaching seniors either in person or in self-paced mode. This represents (and saves) countless hours of work and thought." - Andrea R., 12th grade, 5/5 stars
Science Experiential Learning Activity Resources
I was a high school experiential science teacher for 10 years, so have built a nice portfolio of experiential science resources that engage students in challenging and abstract life science concepts. Here are some of my favorites.
- Wind Pollinator STEM Challenge
- Design Thinking Challenge: Make a Pollinator Garden
- High School Ecology Project Based Learning: Habitats
- Invasive Species Problem-Based Learning Curriculum
- Water Pollution Community Action Project-Based Learning Activity
- The Science of Climate Change Experiential Learning Resources
One of the reasons I got into experiential learning is because of my background and experience working in the field. Get inspiration from my blog post on why I became an experiential educator, and how that led to my career as a high school ecology teacher with an experiential philosophy.
Educational Travel Resources
- Educational Travel Experience Resource Bundle
- Educational Travel Adventures Planning Templates
- Free Educational Travel High School Project-Based Learning Activity
- Free Travel Brochure Mini Project
- Free educational Travel Experience Learning Reflection Questions
- Project-Based Learning Activity: Plan a Trip Around the World
My educational travel blog series has been one of of my favorites to write! Check out these posts that go along well with these resources: The Benefits of Educational Travel, How to Enhance Educational Travel with Project Based Learning, and 45 Educational Travel Project Based Learning Examples.
Favorite Free Experiential Learning Activity Resources
- Self-Directed Project-Based Learning Topic Brainstorming Activity
- Experiential Learning Weekly Digital Planner Sample
- How to Write a Driving Question Template for Project-Based Learning Activities
- Personal Learning Plan Implementation Spreadsheet
- Free Video Training: Getting Started with Self-Directed Project-Based Learning
Writing a project based learning driving question can be a challenge for teachers and students alike. Check out this blog post for tips and an example of project based learning driving question.
Experiential Learning Activity Resource Testimonials
Check out these testimonials from teachers using Experiential Learning Depot resources!
