Traveling can give you a different perspective, new ideas, and a fresh outlook. While I was spending time in Bangalore India, we visited a boys residential school on our way to explore the city of Mysore. My host school is planning on building a new innovative park in the next year and was looking for new ideas. This boys school had the coolest outdoor park I have ever seen….a science park! Being a science teacher, I was inspired by the idea and would love to see schools in the US follow suit.
The science park was tailored to the science standards for high school boys. Visually, the park was colorful and well kept. It is only when you get close up that you discover that they are interactive science toys. The park included a real sun dial, large weight scale, models of DNA and crystal structures, Plancks Law example, and many hands-on examples of Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion. What an awesome way to teach these concepts!
I plan on doing some research to see if this is something that I can bring to my home school district in Ohio. When kids benefit…..everyone wins! But I have to admit, I’ll be trying some of these out myself!…
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