Teacher's Guide

Annual plans and subject content

Pupils should experience mastery and take responsibility, both in collaboration with others and in their encounter with nature.

Pupils should experience mastery and take responsibility, both in collaboration with others and in their encounter with nature. In addition to technical skills, pupils should be formed through experiences in nature, develop respect for nature and be inspired both to use and to look after it. In Friluftsliv 2 the pendulum swings from the pupil as participant to veileder.

The activities in the subject should be as sustainable as possible, and transport and travel distance should also be assessed against the principle of sustainability. This is emphasised in the core elements “friluftslivturer” and “basisferdigheter” in the curriculum, in addition to the cross-curricular theme “bærekraftig utvikling”. You should also discuss with the pupils how the trips can be made more environmentally friendly.

To develop skills in the subject, pupils must get to experience varied activity outdoors in all seasons. They must be allowed to plan and carry out the trips more and more independently, collaborate in groups and challenge themselves. Both day trips and overnight trips should be carried out in different natural environments and seasons, where the pupils should learn to move through nature in a gentle way.

Which trips the pupils go on in the subject is up to each individual teacher. Within the curriculum there is room for both a surfing trip, hut-to-hut trip, glacier trip, river paddling, sea kayak trip, hunting trips, climbing trips, sailing trips, ski tours, dog sledding, kiting and ice-skating trips.

The content of the trips matters more than the activity form.

That is to say, on a sailing trip you can learn just as much about maps and navigation as on a ski tour, as long as the teacher arranges for it.

The number of trips follows from the subject’s yearly allocation, 140 annual hours. How these hours are distributed between theory lessons, day trips and overnight trips is up to the individual teacher.

Suggested annual plan for Friluftsliv 1

Suggested annual plan for Friluftsliv 2

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