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Outdoor Classrooms

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An outdoor classroom, also sometimes referred to as a schoolyard habitat or community restoration project is a space set aside for the development of natural habitats in which students and community members can learn about science and the outdoors through a hands on experience.

Click here to learn more about outdoor classrooms and how you can started on one of your own!

Volunteers build new venue at park OUTDOOR EDUCATION:
Lake Anna gets classroom in the woods

Leave No Child Inside 

 

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