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Our Forest Study program focuses on the unique setting of the Clearpool Model Forest, a portion of land set aside at the Clearpool Campus to promote effective forest management and stewardship practices that are compatible with water quality protection. Designed to promote a greater understanding of our world and our influence on the external environment, this outdoor program allows students to organically focus on tasks, and themselves, while developing critical thinking and motor skills through hikes, tool use and topical discussion.
Nature-based activities and experiential learning foster creativity through unstructured natural play and generate interest in the environment. Outdoor lessons and activities apply academic, interdisciplinary concepts to give insight into land use history, anthropogenic climate change and other challenging topics. Over time, students develop a mindset around stewardship, rooted in resource conservation and community service.
With the completion of an elaborate new habitat built by Green Chimneys’ woodshop students, the Farm Science classroom was able to welcome Brownie into her new home. Brownie previously lived alone in her cage in the farm and wildlife office, but guinea pigs do best in larger environments. The new habitat allows her to live in a herd as she would in the wild, with many places to hide and ways to practice her skills. Brownie has always been a social creature, and she has taken over the guinea pig herd but is a very peaceful leader.