{"id":295205,"date":"2023-10-12T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=295205"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:05:17","slug":"grade-8-science-outdoor-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/10\/12\/grade-8-science-outdoor-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 Science-Outdoor classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1014-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295209 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_0160-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295230 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_0160-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The &#8216;outdoor classroom&#8217; 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u00a0 find the hidden pigments in the leaves in our school backyard!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using paper chromatography experiment the students discovered a perfect solution for exploring the hidden colors of leaves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1024-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295227 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/>. \u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1018-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295232 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1021-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295236 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/10\/IMG_1021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.\u00a0 \u00a0 The &#8216;outdoor classroom&#8217; 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. 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