Chapter # 10 Going Beyond the Classroom

Remember that learning does not only occur inside the classroom. In fact if a break down of time is done (kids spending only 30 hours in school a week), it would stand to reason that more learning occurs outside school. A teacher should help facilitate this as Mahogany explains, "In ninth-grade science, two times a week we went out to clean up a park with a pond in it. We learned about fish and their environment."

Learning like this is always fun and rewarding. I remember in elementary school, this guy named Mr. Baco would come in from a wild life and nature foundation and teach us about natural sciences. He would do this once a month and cover topics ranging from astronomy to the dissection of owl pellets. Everybody couldn't wait for his lessons because he really knew how to make the outdoors into a classroom, and it never felt like school as much as it felt like summer camp.