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Improving Outdoor Environments

Improving Outdoor Environments. “Ideas to Implementation”. By the numbers…. 1935 2010 Less than 1% Less than 2% 10% 28 %. What is our Goal?. To provide the best outdoor learning (activity, play, and exercise) environment that we can provide. Pieces of the Puzzle. Infrastructure

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Improving Outdoor Environments

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  1. Improving Outdoor Environments “Ideas to Implementation”

  2. By the numbers….. 1935 2010 Less than 1% Less than 2% 10% 28 %

  3. What is our Goal? • To provide the best outdoor learning (activity, play, and exercise) environment that we can provide

  4. Pieces of the Puzzle • Infrastructure • Shade • Pathways • Structures (decks, arbors) • Indoor/ Outdoor Transitions

  5. Pieces of the Puzzle • Settings • Gathering Spaces • Lawns • Water Play • Sand/ Loose soil play • Edible Gardens • Outdoor class rooms

  6. What is the question? • How do we create settings that will equally serve different age children? • What is the answer? • Create settings with different scale.

  7. Designing the RealityThe process of converting conceptual plans into working plans • Converting the plan to scale • Challenging every idea, material, method, installation cost, and volunteer opportunity • Creating a materials list • Creating a budget • Forming a schedule

  8. Community Involvment Beg……. Borrow……. and……. Smile

  9. Who do you need? • A Construction manager • A partner in the construction industry • Specific trade experts • Organizations that can send “armies”

  10. Scheduling Install the infrastructure first Install the settings second Contractor+volunteers+contractor+volunteers+ Volunteers+contractor………..

  11. Ideas • Conceptual Plan vs. Working Drawings • Final Product

  12. The Challenge is….. • ….to provide an environment where children can reconnect with nature and reap all the benefits that come from that experience.

  13. Thank you !

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