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Worcester Prep students experience outdoor education

November 4, 2016

Worcester Preparatory School eighth-graders bonded with nature and each other on a three-day, rustic adventure Oct. 12 at Echo Hill Outdoor School in Worton, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. The school has served as a platform for educating children about nature and the environment for more than 100 years. Worcester middle school students have been part of the Echo Hill Outdoor School tradition since the mid-1970s.

While team building with their peers, students experienced hands-on education outside the classroom. The eighth graders lived in tents while hiking through woods, climbing trees, building fires, learning hunting skills and studying marine life and maps. The school’s 300 acres of forests, meadows, freshwater shrub swamp and mile-long beach on the Chesapeake Bay made the perfect playground for a variety of environmental studies.

The daily activities, which included an adventure course and a 40-foot lab boat to investigate the bay’s ecosystem, were aimed at building and enhancing teamwork, confidence and self-esteem.

 

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