{"id":2539,"date":"2017-01-31T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=2539"},"modified":"2017-02-10T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T00:08:31","slug":"outdoor-classroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/greentrail\/outdoor-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Outdoor-Classroom-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Outdoor-Classroom-2-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor-Classroom-2\" width=\"350\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>The Outdoor Classroom was constructed to facilitate education and study habits in a pleasant outdoor environment.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have found that outdoor classrooms can greatly improve retention and understanding.\u00a0In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.air.org\/sites\/default\/files\/downloads\/report\/Outdoorschoolreport_0.pdf\">Effects of Outdoor Education Programs for Children in California<\/a>, researchers highlight greater self-esteem, cooperation, conflict resolution, leadership, relationship with peers, problem solving, motivation to learn, and behavior in class by students involved in outdoor education.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Outdoor-Classroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/Outdoor-Classroom.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor-Classroom\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis Outdoor Classroom structure is located between Old Main and the Memorial Student Center. It was constructed and presented to Marshall College by the leadership honor society <a href=\"https:\/\/odk.org\/\">Omicron Delta Kappa<\/a> in May, 1950.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/greentrail\/2015\/06\/08\/green-trail\/\"><span style=\"\">RETURN TO <strong>GREEN TRAIL<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outdoor Classroom was constructed to facilitate education and study habits in a pleasant outdoor environment. Studies have found that outdoor classrooms can greatly improve retention and understanding.\u00a0In Effects of Outdoor Education Programs for Children in California, researchers highlight greater self-esteem, cooperation, conflict resolution, leadership, relationship with peers, problem solving, motivation to learn, and behavior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"parent":2545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2539\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}