#DISCOVERY CENTER SPRINGFIELD MO PRO#

#DISCOVERY CENTER SPRINGFIELD MO PRO#

The Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World store is next door also and furnishes gear, know-how and support. Kids also use it as a learning facility and sometimes you can find them telling visitors all about the fish and wildlife on display. Next door to the school is the Johnny Morris Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium. It was all built for the school by noted conservationist, Johnny Morris. & Genny Morris Conservation Center in outdoor-themed classrooms that provide state-of-the-art facilities to help further learning with technology and an outdoor learning lab. This outdoor learning school is operated by the school system, but the classroom is not in a normal school building. The school system provides transportation along with teachers Courtney Reece and Lauren Baer, who are passionate about the outdoors and conservation. Well over four hundred 4th grade students who have satisfactory attendance and behavior records apply each year, but only 46 students are chosen by a random drawing to attend as 5 th graders. WOLF School is like any other public school, but kids choose to attend this one. The Wonders of the Ozarks Learning Facility (WOLF) School was formed in partnership with the Springfield Public School System with support from the Wonders of Wildlife Museum and Bass Pro Shops. As Richard Louv said in his book Last Child in the Woods, “The child in nature is an endangered species and the health of children, and the health of the earth, are inseparable.”ġ0 years ago in Springfield, MO a group of people got together to try to change those statistics for the kids in their school system. The result is a childhood obesity rate that has soared due to a combined decline in creativity, concentration and social interaction skills in our kids.īecause of this we are also at risk of losing an entire generation’s appreciation for how nature works and how we need to take care of it for future generations.

A recent study by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute found that, on average, children now spend only 12.6 minutes a day on outdoor activities compared with 10.4 waking hours being relatively motionless.

Time in front of a television, playing video games and time on smart phones is at an all-time high. The amount of time kids spend outdoors in nature is at an all-time low. Inspiration, Passion, Empowerment is Learned HereĬaving is messy, but a whole lot of fun.Wolf School Program creates Conservationists.A School that Changes the Lives of Kids from 5th grade on.

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