Last Tuesday morning, three eighth-graders from the Martha’s Vineyard Charter School kneeled over a bed of arugula in the gardens of Slough Farm, plucking broad leaves from the soil as they talked.
The morning’s gardening duties were part of the school’s new outdoor expeditionary learning program. For the middle schoolers, who have been taking classes remotely this fall, the soil and blooming greens became the site of their first class of the day.
Launched at the start of October, the program is the charter’s school’s latest effort to build in-person, project-based learning into the fall curriculum. Once a week on Tuesday and Wednesdays, small groups of middle and high school students travel to Island farms and organizations for a morning of outdoor learning and community volunteering. read more on Vineyard Gazette
