Does anyone have experience building a Rain Garden? We have a great to design and create one on campus.
If you're interested, we can share our process with your school as well.
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To piggyback off of this, has anyone built an outdoor classroom at their school? or know of anyone who has?
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A local student revitalized the outdoor classroom at ARIS in Hillsborough as a part of her Gold Award project for Girl Scouts. LMK if you would like me to connect you with her, Mike Skomba
Personally, I would love an outdoor classroom space for so many reasons....and keep mentioning it to anyone who will listen.
At my HS, we have an interior courtyard that has outdoor classroom / environmental edu application. Montgomery HS has a similar (much smaller) interior courtyard where they have many plants growing.
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Gwen Duralek , my gosh your reply above sounds so much like my experience in terms of what I have always wanted and my broken record of talking to people.
At the place I've been for the past 7 years or so, there isn't much space outdoors. We occupy a large city building, not exactly a "real" school building.
I have looked into joining a couple of different community gardening projects, but transportation is always an issue, and students wouldn't utilize it during the summer break.
But I grow indoor plants with students whenever I can. Sometimes we make them part of a lesson. Sometimes I just want the students to experience living things and interdependent environments. We also raise salmon from eggs and release the fingerlings every spring.
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What do you mean about an outdoor classroom? Is that more than doing some of the activities outside? You definitely have my attention.
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Love how you're engaging the students with growing plants and hatching fish eggs -- I think some of our science teachers do that. I'm sure that your students really are able experience in the interdependence that these activities bring. Wonderful, Donnetta Elsasser
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My former students often stop by my classroom in the spring to see what my current classes are growing. A lot of them say it is one of their favorite experiences. At the end of the year I allow students to take home fruit/vegetable plants. One former student supplies his whole block with corn! You have me very curious about the salmon though!
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VERY cool, Andrea Wong
The salmon come to us from a program "Salmon in Schools" through the Tri-State Steelheaders. (WA, OR, ID). It is a non-profit conservation organization that works with Tribes, Dept of Fish and Wildlife, and other organizations to increase and sustain healthy fish populations.
We get eggs every fall and let the fingerlings go in the spring.
Most people use the program through a science class. I use mine through WA State History and social studies.
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Todd Nussen , I'm not sure what other people mean, but I am talking about either growing things, like a community garden. Or cultivating and tending to plants in an outdoor space, like a park. Various classes of mine have done some park things, but it never got off the ground as much as I would have liked.
In my current school, our director has talked about getting the kids together to plant some shrubs or perennial flowers and such. I'd like to have them design and foster a plan, not just do the labor.
