Ask any teacher which class is harder to settle after lunch and the answer is usually the same: the one right after a stretch of indoor screen time or sitting still. There's a straightforward fix that schools are increasingly taking seriously, and it isn't complicated. It's simply teaching outdoors more often.
Ask a child what they remember from school and you'll rarely hear "the day we copied notes from the board." You'll hear about the volcano they built, the class trip where they saw a real ecosystem, the time they got to run an actual experiment instead of reading about one. That's experiential learning in action, and there's a growing body of research backing up what good teachers have always sensed instinctively.
