Outdoor learning for all

 

They're not on campus, but they're learning outdoors.

 

Gordon@Home students in first and second grade have been learning math and science in a curriculum that gets them out of doors and interacting with the world they find there.

 

Two weeks ago, students also built "racetrack courses" and videoed themselves running, skipping, and walking backward. They made predictions, noted improvements, and compared values as "greater than" and "less than". 

 

Last week, they created hundred charts and collected one hundred items of their choosing to use with counting and games they did with the hundreds chart. They are comparing values, adding, and subtracting through games and activities.

 

This week, there will be more hundred charts, pattern making, predicting and comparing values. It's a curriculum that draws on concepts from Wild Math, and expands on Gordon's Math in Focus curriculum to take advantage of the spaces and materials available to @Home students.

 

Along the way, students have been using photos and video to share their outdoor discoveries, and their nature-based art projects.

 

Gordon@Home is for students whose families have health concerns that prevent them from coming to campus this fall. Approximately 10% of Gordon students are participating, from Kindergarten to eighth grade.