Place Based Science and Education in the Clearwater: Not Just Chalkboards and the Nature Channel Anymore

In recent years our local schools, teachers and students, school administrators and volunteers have worked to bring our local environment into the classroom. Or more accurately, to move the classroom outside linking students with the natural resources and remarkable place we call home.

Recent examples include the work they are doing in our streams and watersheds, forests, trails and even within the business community via the new Seeley Lake Elementary Outside Learning Center. The students have been documenting their work, see "The Junior Journal," in the Pathfinder and on the web at crcmt.org,...