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The Covid 19 pandemics expanded the interest towards outside-school education. This essay aims to generate reader’s attraction towards the efficient, fun, and cheap option of educating in the open air by using parks, forests, fields, farms, beeches, harbors, plazas, streets, and cities. Complex topics like the evolution by means of Natural Selection and the evolutionary phylogenies are smoothly explained by critically and participatory observing unharmful plants and animals (e.g. mollusks) freely available outdoors. History, Civility, Arts, and social behavior are learned in a constructive, transdisciplinary way in plazas or streets by observing buildings and other infrastructures. Open-air learning stimulates student’s hormones of pleasure facilitating them to enthusiastically read books and attending indoor classes related to the topics attended outdoors. Playful learning is not contradictory, but complementary to school’s rigor because every game follows rules and needs to be studied.
