Design of the Outdoor Classroom, Nature Unleashed

Using the school grounds as the "extended" classroom. We will look at the current third and fourth grade units and dovetail the Discover Nature Schools curriculum into place-based OC units.This workshop follows up early afterschool in-service. We will be designing gardens and learning stations; improved class observations and data collecting for science note-booking is the objective. Later we will look at field trip options for comparing the school environment to nearby prairie, wetland and glade habitats.