Why kids should spend more time outside at school (or at home)!

1. You can learn science through observation and investigation

2. You can follow your curiosity

3. Movement is healthy for the body and mind

4. It gets kids excited to learn

5. It inspires creativity and imagination

6. Fosters an appreciation of nature

7. You can write in the dirt

8. There are so many things you can visualize to help with math

9. It is peaceful to read and write outside

10. It's easier to learn how to work as a group outside

11. You can get a lot of ideas from nature for art and music and you can make things out of objects that you find in nature.

12. It's exciting...you never know what you'll see. I saw a bald eagle eating a squirrel at my school.

13. You can learn a lot through play!