Inner City Outdoor Science Explorers

Funded May 26, 2020

This spring, your donation helped turn outside time back into a healthy learning experience for my students. Right after the pandemic shut down schools and playgrounds in my city and families were asked to shelter place, my students' families took that quite literally and forbid their children to leave their homes. I could see their physical and mental health deteriorate and their cognitive development stall.

It wasn't until I supplied them with their Urban Explorer Backpacks with materials and tools such as binoculars, tweezers, sidewalk chalk and journals that that they allowed their children to venture out, move, and interact with nature. Parents felt supported enough to leave their apartments and allow their children to observed animals in trees, pick up objects from the ground, investigate and exercise their muscles - all the while taking in essential vitamin D from the sun's rays to keep their immune systems strong.

I know you will enjoy the photos of them using their materials!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Aune