Source: AGFCLittle Rock, Ark. (AFAEF) - The Arkansas Forestry Association Education Foundation
(AFAEF) awarded a $1,000 Outdoor Learning Center Grant to Osceola High School
to help fund the Seminoles Interactive Learning Center and Memorial Garden.
This project proposes to create an interactive outdoor classroom and memorial
garden that will showcase native plants and provide tables and benches,
allowing students to work outside. A variety of student groups-from the
Environmental Science Club to EAST Lab-have been instrumental in every aspect
of the project.
"After visiting the Forrest L. Wood Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Nature Center and Memphis Botanical Gardens, the students decided to design an
outdoor learning area with Arkansas native plants, aquatic habitat with small
native fish and plants, tables, benches, walkways, and a pavilion,
eventually," said Maleigha Light, a biology teacher at Osceola High
School, who applied for the grant.
"We are proud to support Osceola High School's efforts to develop an
outdoor classroom," said AFAEF Director of Forestry Education Rob Beadel.
"By using Project Learning Tree and other environmental education
activities, Ms. Light will connect students with nature and enhance learning."
Each year, the AFAEF awards an Outdoor Classroom Grant to a public or private
school that can demonstrate how an outdoor learning center can positively
affect its curriculum and students. For more information about environmental
education in Arkansas, look online at www.arkforests.org.
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Anna Swaim
Communications Director
Arkansas Forestry Association
1214 W. 4th St.
Little Rock AR 72201
501.374.2441
www.arkforests.org
Twitter @arkforests
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