That Build on Place 1. Students tend to have positive experiences with their local landscapes. It doesn't matter if these landscapes include mountains, forests, deserts, cities, seashores, marshes, suburbs, or prairies. Students learn to create adventures, inquire about, and find challenges where they live. Students can appreciate their local ecosystems, including the cycles, rhythms, ebbs, and flows.
Students enjoy learning about local and county governments by participating in the civic process.
They can conduct interviews, distribute questionnaires, and report the results, producing new knowledge that policymakers, decision makers, and voters can use. In turn, the students will learn about politics, processes, rules, and relationships. Students are capable of running businesses, wrestling with economic principles, debating public policy, and considering alternative futures for their state, region, or local community. They will learn that their futures reside more within them than away from where they live. Students like to use available information, first-hand stories, and primary sources to produce new knowledge.