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Educating Children Outdoors

Educating Children Outdoors (ECO) is a nature immersion program where students and teachers spend 2-4 hours a week outdoors exploring and learning in nature. We have numerous grade levels at BTMES who have ECO trained & certified teachers and our students spend many hours outdoors learning and exploring in their ECO classrooms. Our campus is surrounded by the Barre Town Forest and our teachers and students have their ECO classrooms within the beautiful forest. 

Through ECO, our teachers encourage play and creativity in nature, weave elements of grade level curriculum into outdoor activities, and foster a love of the outdoors. Our students are given many opportunities to practice life skills in nature, math, fire safety and building, species identification, mapping, structure building, art, to play and much more, in our gorgeous town forest.  

Barre Town Bobcats love ECO!

ECO at BTMES

red and yellow leaves in a spiral
ECO students gathering in the woods.
ECO students inspecting objects in the woods.
Eco students looking at a sheet pan of items they found in the woods.
Eco students looking at dirt, digging with sticks.
Eco students showing the camera some leaves that they found in the woods.
Eco student sitting against a tree, writing on a clipboard.
Eco student looking closely at the ground near fallen leaves and pine needles.
Eco student sitting under a tree, with a pad and pencil, deep in thought.
Leaves laying next to a color chart, to compare their colors.
Eco student holding a salamander in the woods.
ECO student looking closely at a caterpillar on a tree.
ECO students crossing downed tree in swampy woods.
Eco students doing school work in the woods.