Education Report - Learning Outdoors at a Natural History Museum

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VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Outdoors, the open air, seems like a natural place to natural science. It also makes sense in a place Southern California where people like to be outside a . Now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County redesigned an outdoor space into a living exhibit. The and a half hectare area used to include a lot. Now, it welcomes birds, butterflies and many other things. Teacher Eva Eng has visited the museum's outdoor with her students. She says they enjoyed the experience. children were learning about plant science in school. Museum come outside to describe plants and insects in the setting of this outdoor laboratory. Greg Pauly studies turtles. tells students how urban development has changed the habitat turtles like the western pond turtle. He says these are happiest around small bodies of water that grow shrink with the seasons. Today, with development, there is more permanent water, like the pond at the Natural Museum itself. The scientist says the changing habitat is reason why western pond turtles are disappearing. In addition science lessons, the open-air exhibit provides contact with nature a way that city children rarely get. Landscape architect Lehrer says children can get real-life answers to questions may have. Outdoor classrooms help students understand how the world is interconnected and how living things need habitat survive. Museum official Karen Wise says the whole museum opening up to an indoor-outdoor experience. For VOA Learning , I'm Laurel Bowman. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast

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