Description
The Milton Public Schools, Glover teachers, parents, and community members have formed a partnership to create a schoolyard habitat/garden (outdoor classroom) in Glover’s new courtyard. Our goal is to create an easily accessible area where students can discover their connections with nature. Teachers will be able to take their classes on field trips right outside the door to a courtyard with inviting curved pathways, trees and shrubs to entice birds and butterflies, birdfeeders and birdbaths, a geology rock garden, and an outdoor seating area for classes. The Glover project will be the model for other schools townwide. We welcome the opportunity to include the Tucker community in this project during the 2003/2004 school year so that they can prepare for their own project when the new Tucker School is completed.
The new outdoor classroom in Glover’s courtyard will be used as a teaching tool across the curriculum, improving students’ inquiry skills and inspiring a sense of wonder about their local environment. It will be a creative hands-on teaching area for science (learning about birds, habitats, plants, etc.), writing (writing nature stories, poems), math (graphing the types and numbers of birds that come to our feeders), art (creating nature drawings and journals), music (outdoor music classes) and much more!
Throughout the whole courtyard design, planning, planting, and maintenance process, the Glover students will be key participants. With their help, as well as assistance from teachers, parents, and community members, we will turn the courtyard into a state-of-the-art outdoor learning environment.
The new outdoor classroom in Glover’s courtyard will be used as a teaching tool across the curriculum, improving students’ inquiry skills and inspiring a sense of wonder about their local environment. It will be a creative hands-on teaching area for science (learning about birds, habitats, plants, etc.), writing (writing nature stories, poems), math (graphing the types and numbers of birds that come to our feeders), art (creating nature drawings and journals), music (outdoor music classes) and much more!
Throughout the whole courtyard design, planning, planting, and maintenance process, the Glover students will be key participants. With their help, as well as assistance from teachers, parents, and community members, we will turn the courtyard into a state-of-the-art outdoor learning environment.
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