I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed today's class. I definitely have a bias since I am already well acquainted with the outdoors and have devoted the last 7-8 years of my career in outdoor education. However, I have never really thought of the outdoors as not only a venue but a resource to teaching anything other than "outdoors skills". Indeed, in mathematics and sciences (among other subjects), we are learning the language that describes the natural world, and what better place to learn than surrounded by it. These types of hands-on lessons like measuring the angle of the sun with our bodies is also much more memorable than studying a diagram of the sun's trajectory in a textbook. It probably also would help a lot of youth stay engaged since they don't have to 'resist the urge to fidget', but rather participate in the lesson with their whole bodies.
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