HWB Outdoor Learning – 5 CfE Second Level Lesson Plans

Take Health and Wellbeing learning outdoors with this engaging collection of 5 ready-to-use HWB lesson plans for Second Level within Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).

Designed specifically for an outdoor setting, these lessons encourage learners to explore emotions, relationships, conflict resolution, personal identity and strengths through active, reflective and collaborative learning experiences.

Themes Covered
Recognising and Naming Emotions
Explore a range of emotions, develop emotional vocabulary and consider how emotions can affect thoughts, behaviours and interactions with others.
Building Positive Relationships
Investigate the qualities that help create healthy and respectful relationships, including communication, trust, empathy, cooperation and kindness.
Managing Conflict
Explore why conflict happens and develop strategies for communicating effectively, understanding different perspectives and resolving disagreements respectfully.
Identity Circles: Who Am I?
Encourage learners to reflect on the different aspects of their identity, including interests, experiences, relationships, values, culture, achievements and the things that make them unique.
Hand of Strengths
Support learners to identify their personal strengths, qualities and skills, while recognising strengths in others and considering how these can help them overcome challenges.

What’s Included?
Each lesson plan includes:
Learning Intention
Success Criteria
Resource Details
Warm-Up
Teacher Input
Guided Input
Independent Input
Plenary
Assessment - Say, Make, Do, Write
Differentiation – Support
Differentiation – Challenge

The consistent format provides a clear structure for planning and delivery while allowing flexibility for practitioners to adapt activities to their learners.

Assessment
Assessment opportunities are embedded throughout the lessons using a Say, Make, Do, Write approach.

Differentiation
Each lesson includes suggestions for both support and challenge, helping practitioners adapt learning to meet a range of needs and abilities.

How to Use This Resource
These lesson plans are designed to be flexible and easy to use in a variety of outdoor environments.

They can be delivered in:
School grounds.
Outdoor classrooms.
Playgrounds.
Gardens.
Woodland or natural spaces.
Other suitable outdoor learning areas.

Each lesson follows a clear progression from warm-up and teacher input, through guided and independent learning, to plenary and assessment.

Choose the lesson that matches your current HWB focus, gather the suggested resources and take the learning outdoors.

Activities can be adapted according to your available space, weather conditions, resources and individual learner needs.