OutdoorSHMS
Our Outdoor Sustainablity Classroom will benefit the entire student body and school community. This upgraded outdoor learning space and science lab will do the following:
- Provide students with real-time lab opportunities which allow for authentic evaluation of current energy conserving (green roof) and energy producing (solar panel) technologies.
- Allow students to investigate relationships between these two technologies, and make informed judgements, based on gathered evidence, as to whether these relationships are synergistic.
- Provide a wide array of more detailed investigative opportunities to explore, for example, the degree of water retention of the plant boxes by studying their porosity and subsequent run-off.
- Require thinking critically and using investigative skills.
- Actively engage students with each other in an open lab space, free of traditional classroom physical restraints. The outdoor classroom provides instant access to natural variables which are difficult to realistically reproduce in a traditional indoor classroom.
