Chapter 10. Going Beyond the Classroom

The chapter this passage comes from explains that students can really learn when they are given the opportunity to see things outside of the classroom. Mahogany says, “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” page 176.

There is nothing like combining learning with community service. There are so many great things that can come from helping other people, cleaning up the environment that you live in while learning outside of the classroom. I am very passionate about environmental issues/problems and I will enjoy taking my students outside to learn a lot about the environment. There are so many things in science that can be taught outside of the classroom. The value of helping other people can be taught inside and outside the classroom, but the important thing is, that it is taught.