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The ‘outdoor classroom’ provides a meaningful way to engage learners in practical science, giving them experience of collecting and analysing data, and making predictions in the real world, beyond the limitations of the classroom or laboratory. The wider educational benefits of teaching and learning science through fieldwork in the natural and built environments include teamwork, motivation and its potential to influence positively the choice of science as a future subject of study.
As we wind up our unit on matter and separation techniques in grade 8 science, the students spent some time this week collecting leaves and flowers from different trees in order to find the hidden pigments in the leaves in our school backyard!Using paper chromatography experiment the students discovered a perfect solution for exploring the hidden colors of leaves.
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