Real-life Learning

The Outdoor Learning Center allows Fort Worth ISD students to see how the science and math principles that they’re learning on campus really work in the world around them. Using the various learning courses laid out along the Outdoor Learning Center’s terrain, students can examine the soil, inspect water samples, analyze machinery to see how simple devices unite to make more complex ones, and see how human activities can affect the world around us—for better or worse.

As they record and study data for themselves, students will learn skills of observation, analysis and prediction that will benefit them long after their classroom years are over.

Relevance

Science and math aren’t simply "book learnin’," and activities at the Outdoor Learning Center bring home their relevance to everyday life.

That handful of dirt—what kind of life it will support? That container of water—is it safe to drink? That human activity—what will it do to the environment? The Center allows students to put concepts into context; it unites hands and minds in learning. And besides that, it’s just plain fun.