Why Outdoors
Why Outdoors
Why Leave Your School Building for an Education?
This is an important question that we are often asked, and these are a few important answers:
- To complement classroom learning
- To provide students with different styles of teaching and learning that appeal to multiple intelligences
- To allow teachers the opportunity to observe their students learning and responding in a different environment.
- To enhance group dynamics within a class
- To provide an experience that broadens students' perspectives
- To allow teachers to see students thrive in ways not always apparent in the classroom setting
- To provide some students with their first experience away from home
- To provide an outdoor experience with hands-on activities while exploring natural cycles
- To help build a relationship with the natural world without modern distractions