A Classroom in the Outdoors

Outdoor school takes sixth-grade students from the classroom to the outdoors where they can study those things best studied outdoors...plants, animals, soil, and water. Outdoor education can take place in the schollyard, vacant lot, or on a field trip, but the greatest gaisn are made when students can live in the outdoors for an extended period of time, at a resident Outdoor School.

At Outdoor School each class has a piece of land, called a "study plot," as its classroom. Each study plot (often several acres in size) provides access to a stream or lake, varieties of trees and shrubs, and an assortment of birds and animals. Since students are not limited by the conventional classroom walls, they can see, hear, feel, and smell the realities of nature around them.