6th Grade Learning Extends Beyond Walls- Exploring the Great Outdoors

The sixth grade students recently spent three days at Nature's Classroom, an outdoor education camp near Bellville, Ohio. While at camp, they practiced communication and cooperation skills. They have classes that involved:

• Adventure Team-solving challenges together in a group
• In Cold Blood- learning about reptiles
• Squirrel Olympics- learning how squirrels survive in their environment
• Geodomes- building a geodesic dome
• Catapults- learning about a history of catapults and using them
• Pond Probe- learning about pond life
• Countdown- learning about and launching water rockets

All of the students participated in a game of Predator - Prey to learn about how animals meet their needs in the environment as they tried to keep from being eaten by their predators. During the Night Hike, students had a chance to experience walking though the woods after dark and learning about adaptations for nocturnal animals. Students worked in small groups at the Invention Convention to design, make, and market their own inventions. Each and every one of the students had new experiences and was able to learn many new things in a fun, exciting, outdoor environment!