Faculty Mentor Name
Marylou Bagus-Hansen
Abstract
Our goal with this project was to encourage students in the ASES (After School Education and Safety) program at Mable Barron Elementary School to learn in a fun and engaging way. After doing research on the benefits of outdoor learning, we decided to fulfill our goal by utilizing the garden at Mable Barron. For our project, we restored the garden with new plants and created a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt was designed to push students to learn about plants and gardening in a fun way with the activity still being educational. We began our process by creating labels for each new plant in the garden. Each label listed the plant’s scientific name, its place of origin, and a fun fact about it. We then used each of these categories to create a ten-question scavenger hunt which required students to observe every plant in the garden and learn something new about each of them. Although the scavenger hunt was the main event of our project, we incorporated other activities to make sure that students were immersed in the garden. Some of these other activities included rock painting, coloring “bug houses,” and having the students visit the garden two times a week while we restored it so they could see the process. Our ultimate purpose with this project was to provide a way for students to learn that was fun, interactive, and educational. We hoped to encourage the students to become interested not only in the garden itself but learning as a whole.
Location
DeRosa University Center, University of the Pacific
Start Date
24-4-2026 3:00 PM
End Date
24-4-2026 5:00 PM
Encouraging Outdoor Education at Mable Barron Elementary School
DeRosa University Center, University of the Pacific
Our goal with this project was to encourage students in the ASES (After School Education and Safety) program at Mable Barron Elementary School to learn in a fun and engaging way. After doing research on the benefits of outdoor learning, we decided to fulfill our goal by utilizing the garden at Mable Barron. For our project, we restored the garden with new plants and created a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt was designed to push students to learn about plants and gardening in a fun way with the activity still being educational. We began our process by creating labels for each new plant in the garden. Each label listed the plant’s scientific name, its place of origin, and a fun fact about it. We then used each of these categories to create a ten-question scavenger hunt which required students to observe every plant in the garden and learn something new about each of them. Although the scavenger hunt was the main event of our project, we incorporated other activities to make sure that students were immersed in the garden. Some of these other activities included rock painting, coloring “bug houses,” and having the students visit the garden two times a week while we restored it so they could see the process. Our ultimate purpose with this project was to provide a way for students to learn that was fun, interactive, and educational. We hoped to encourage the students to become interested not only in the garden itself but learning as a whole.
