Why have an Outdoor Education Program?
There are seven major objectives for students: • To make the school program more meaningful by applying the knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom to real-life situations outside of the classroom. • To provide experience in using scientific processes such as observing, hypothesizing, measuring, and classifying.  • To cultivate an awareness, knowledge, appreciation, and concern for the natural environment and its systems, including the effect of people’s actions upon it.  • To help students learn to live democratically and responsibly for the welfare of the total group.  • To help students develop, enhance and maintain good human relations—among themselves and with their teachers.  • To help develop positive attitudes about learning through varied experiences in the natural environment. • To deliver MCPS curriculum by providing students with hands-on, authentic learning opportunities.
