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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
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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.
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of Louisiana oil producer
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NEW ORLEANS — A dissi
dent group seeking to oust
Louisiana Land 8c Exploration
Co. Chairman John G. Phillips
and other management has the
vote of the wealthy Hunt family
of Texas, the largest single
Through Dallas-based Placid
Oil Co., the Hunt interests own
4,688,600 shares or 12.34 per
cent of the New Orleans-based
oil producer.
The Hunt family’s disclosure
Monday of its support of the dis
sident group marked the first
public commitment to either
side in the power struggle.
Phillips, who also is LL&E’s
chief executive, expressed “dis
appointment,” but said he re
mains confident of winning the
proxy battle May 12 for control
of the company, which has $ 1.68
billion in assets.
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