Stage of nature and motor knowledge in the primary school. Teaching physical education in an open environment.

This contribution proposes an approach to the teaching of physical education in Primary School through the promotion of a stringent relationship between nature, body and movement. Recent studies indicate the natural environment as a great setting for a huge gym, where the child moves and plays, discovers and learns in a sustainable and inclusive context. The roots of outdoor education can be found in the Italian pedagogical lesson, which developed from the end of the nineteenth century and revives in recent years. Retracing the various contributions of scientific research and the indications of the most important international organizations that deal with the need to expand the motor skills of children and the risks of sedentary lifestyle, the work intends to demonstrate how the contribution of motor science is necessary to further enhance the results achieved with the outdoor school projects and promoting healthy lifestyles, the sense of psycho-social well-being, the development of more complex motor skills in a scenery where movement is combined with the concept of freedom, respect for nature, sustainable development. Motor education in open educational contexts reinforces the idea of: "school without classrooms", living in contact with nature, the possibility for children to consolidate and strengthen coordination skills, in order to develop important socialization processes. However, the outdoor school is still an experience to be developed on the national territory and, above all, it is important to expand the contributions of motor activities and the culture of movement. The proposed work, in fact, intends to demonstrate how motor activity, through its constructive, exploratory, communicative, creative and symbolic specificity, contributes to the development of the experience achieved so far with the broad planning of the outdoor school.