![]() ![]() Image Details Several canoes of students & teachers explore the waters of the Okefenokee. ![]() Foster State Park, which lies within the Okefenokee NWR, in February of this year. What began as lessons in Austin Russell’s Environmental Science class, learning about this blackwater swamp hours away from the city of Atlanta, culminated in a three-day camping trip to Stephen C. “We take their education off of the paper and bring their learning experience to life,” she said. Monique Nunnally, Director of Community Engaged Learning at the New School, explained how they built into their curriculum opportunities for lessons outside the classroom at each high school grade level. Not only had they studied the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) but Refuge Manager Michael Lusk and Folkston community leader Antwon Nixon had visited the school. ![]() When the New School, a high school located in downtown Atlanta, was planning its camping trip to south Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, it recognized how impactful a visit to such a wild place could be for the young people who had never seen a night sky so full of stars or witnessed alligators sunning themselves on swampy banks. And the students’ education didn’t begin when they stepped off the bus. ![]() Image Details Students work together to paddle their canoe in the Okefenokee. ![]()
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