Explore your environment by using the outdoors as a classroom!

Each summer the N.C. Forest Service offers educators a chance to explore the environment with innovative learning activities suitable for integration into any school curriculum.

In “Investigating Your Environment” workshops, teachers become the students; collecting, recording and interpreting information about the environment. They then analyze the information and make inferences about the physical, social and economic impacts on the environment. All the while, learning to use the outdoors as a classroom with their students. One day will be dedicated to visiting other environmental education facilities in the area. This workshop focuses on “teaching methods” for the outdoor environment, along with content material.