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Page 4B/The Battalion/Thursday, May 5, 1983 ' V s Oklahoma academy pupils enjoy outdoor classroom United Press International GUYMON, Okla. — When math students need to calculate the distance a rocket travels they just launch one of their own — in an outdoor classroom that is part of a state-funded creative education program. At a “School Outdoors” in this Oklahoma Panhandle city of 8,500 people, students of all grade levels see alternative ener gy sources in action and learn about plant and animal life fir sthand. The outdoor school idea is popular with students because they can participate, said Guymon educator Jess Nelson, who originated the idea six years ago. Nelson is principal of Guymon’s Academy School, which educates part of from kin- Guymon’s students dergarten through fourth grade and all fifth and sixth graders. The program is popular with educators, Nelson said, because it provides “practical experi ence” for students they are trying to teach. “The junior high teachers take kids up and teach math clas ses up there,” Nelson said. “They measure distances, shoot off rockets and measure the alti tude. “It gives them a practical aspect of the math they study in class,” the principal said. Each spring the fifth and sixth graders participate in an Oklahoma Land Run designed to provide a better understand ing of their ancestors’ struggle as What's the Worst Thing About the End of a Semester? homesteaders in the rugged Panhandle. During the spring Land Run festivities students churn butter, make candles and re-enact the run which helped settle Okla homa. “It gives them some idea of what people were doing at the time of the land run,” Nelson said. The program, called School Outdoors or “SOD,” is funded by a three-year $65,000 Depart ment of Education grant. Nel son said the school district and community had contributed at least that much in added help, including the five-acre plot where the outdoor classroom is located. The school outdoors is avail able for Guymon’s approxi mately 2,000 students. The loca tion is an old dumping ground turned into a park near the com munity’s only high school. A wind generator harnesses the wind to provide electricity for a combination greenhouse and classroom on the site. Solar collectors heat the building dur ing the winter. A windmill pumps wateL There also is a water wheel and students have built a natural wa ter fountain. Even ducks that swim lazily on the area’s two ponds are the result of a school activity. “The ducks on the ponds are some the kids have incubated in the classroom,” Nelson said. “Different kids helped plant trees in the area.” Nelson, a tall, thin man com fortably dressed in blue jeans, flannel shirt and cowboy boots for a school day, says the SOD program stems from his love of the outdoors and a desire to teach children about nature. “I enjoy it,” Nelson said. “I’ve always enjoyed being outdoors. That’s probably why I’m in terested in it.” The educator said plans for the outdoor classroom evolved from several ideas put together, including an interest in alterna tive energy forms. Moving. Get Your Xerox Copies Moving has to be one of the biggest hassles of the semester. . . But the parents love it, right? Wrong. Parents hate moving, so this year make it easy on yourself and on dad... 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