Learning with Lizards

Learning with Lizards

The weather in North Carolina is pretty warm year-round, which makes for an excellent climate for lizards. When Michelle McElhiney’s fifth-grade students started noticing the lizards running around on the paved pathways in their outdoor classroom, where younger...

Out Teach, formerly REAL School Gardens, provides professional development for elementary school teachers. Out Teach prepares them to use school gardens, outdoor classrooms, and green schoolyards to improve instruction through three-dimensional project-based learning, and outdoor experiential inquiry-based education. Professional learning with Out Teach improves hands-on science and STEM education through instructional coaching and digital education resources and improves 21st Century skills.