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Outdoor Education Continues in the Cold
Cindy Soule is a teacher in Portland, Maine, an area known to have extremely cold and snowy winters. But cold weather is not stopping Soule and her students from continuing with outdoor learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier in the school year, students in Soule’s fourth-grade class had outdoor lessons on things like pollination and erosion.
Then, the snow came.
In face coverings and warm clothes, the students took their school supplies outside in buckets. Then, they turned the buckets over, put them down in the snow, took a seat and went to work.
The lesson that day centered on snow and the formation of snowflakes.
Schools across the U.S. have pushed for outdoor learning to keep students and teachers safe and stop the spread of COVID-19. Infectious disease experts worldwide have noted that the virus spreads less easily outdoors.
Now, with temperatures dropping in much of the country, some schools have made plans to continue outdoor learning during the winter.
Anne Stires is an outdoor learning expert in Maine. She said the outdoors is “the healthiest, safest place for us to be right now.”
“Anything that we can do to get kids outdoors for longer periods of time is vital,” Stires added. “This is where we need to be right now.”
In the neighboring state of New Hampshire, fourth- and fifth- grade students are still learning outside at James Faulkner Elementary School in Stoddard. The school created an outdoor classroom by clearing some trees and building an area for warmth by fire.
The students seem to like the outdoor classroom.
“They’re begging me to go out,” teacher Amanda Bridges said.
In the western state of Colorado, elementary school students in the Lake County school district study in usual classrooms for half the week. For the other half, they learn outdoors.
For educators, outdoor learning is yet another period of change. Last spring, it was distance learning. Then came hybrid, or mixed, learning methods. Now, educators are trying to keep their students warm enough to learn outside.
Back in Portland, Cindy Soule’s students answer questions about snowflakes. They examine snowflakes with magnifying glasses.
Mohamednur Ali is one of Soule’s students. The 9-year-old boy noted some of the differences between hands-on learning outdoors and sitting in a classroom.
“It’s a good thing because you can see the real thing,” Ali said. “We learn what is around us.”
Portland is home to a growing immigrant population. Some of Soule’s fourth-grade students come from places like Somalia, Iraq and Angola.
“We have students with varying language needs,” Soule said. The power of learning outdoors is that all learners can gain from the experience, the teacher added.
Outdoor learning may work for rural and suburban schools. But it is more difficult for schools in cities, said Daniel Domenech. He is the director of the American Association of School Administrators.
For schools in Portland, the pandemic has marked the first official use of outdoor learning. The aim is to keep it going even after the pandemic ends.
Soule said her students will never forget the pandemic’s difficulties. But she said she hopes studying in nature will be among their good memories of 2020.
“They’re seeing the outdoors around them and it brings relevancy to what they’re studying,” Soule said. “ They will remember that forever.”
I'm Armen Kassabian.
重点解析
重点讲解：
1. right now 马上；立刻；
I have a client with me right now.
我们必须采取积极步骤处理这个问题。
2. go out 出去；外出；
You should not go out in the heat of the da.
你不应该在天最热的时候外出。
3. try to 指明；说明；
We try to help all students realize their full potential.
我们努力帮助所有的学生充分发挥他们的潜力。
4. be home to 是……的所在地；是……的家园；
The lake used to be home to wild oysters, but 99 percent of them are go.
这个湖中曾经生活着野生牡蛎，但是它们中的99%都已消失。
参考译文
在寒冬中继续户外教学
辛迪·索尔是缅因州波特兰市的一名教师，该地区冬季极为寒冷且多雪。但是寒冷的天气并没有阻止索尔和她的学生在新冠病毒大流行期间继续进行户外学习。
在本学年的早些时候，索尔四年级的学生们在户外上了授粉和风蚀之类的课程。
后来，开始下雪。
学生们用被子和暖和的衣服把学习用品装在桶里带到室外。然后，他们把桶翻过来，放在雪地里，坐下来学习。
那天的课程教授的是雪和雪花的形成。
美国各地的学校都在实行户外教学，以保证学生和教师的安全，阻止新冠病毒的传播。全球传染病专家都注意到，病毒不太容易在户外传播。
现在，随着全国大部分地区气温下降，一些学校已经制定了在冬季继续进行户外教学的计划。
安妮·斯蒂尔斯是缅因州的户外教学专家，她说户外是“我们现在最健康、最安全的地方。”
斯蒂尔斯补充说：“重要的是，我们要采取任何措施使孩子们待在户外的时间更长，我们现在需要这么做。”
在邻近的新罕布什尔州，斯托达德的詹姆斯·福克纳小学四年级和五年级的学生还在户外学习。学校清理了一些树木，还建造了一个生火取暖的地方，用它来做户外教室。
学生们似乎很喜欢户外教室。
“他们请求我让他们到户外去，” 老师阿曼达·布里奇斯说。
在西部的科罗拉多州，湖县学区的小学生在普通教室里学习了半周，另半周则在户外学习。
对教育工作者来说，户外学习是另一种变革。去年春天，是远程教育，随后是混合学习法。现在，教育工作者正努力让学生在户外暖和和地学习。
回到波特兰市，辛迪·索尔的学生们回答有关雪花的问题，他们用放大镜查看雪花。
穆罕默德·阿里是索尔的一名学生，这个9岁的男孩注意到户外动手学习和坐在教室里学习的一些区别。
阿里说：“这是件好事，因为能看到实物，我们学习周围有的事物。”
波特兰市是数量不断增长的移民的家园。索尔的一些四年级学生来自索马里、伊拉克和安哥拉等地。
索尔说：“我们的学生有不同的语言需求。”户外学习的力量在于所有的学生都能从中受益，她补充道。
美国学校管理者协会主任丹尼尔·多梅内克说，户外学习在农村和郊区学校可能适用，但对于城市学校来说就更困难了。
对于波特兰市的学校来说，疫情标志着首次正式实施户外学习。这样做的目的是，即使在疫情结束后，也能使其保持下去。
索尔说，她的学生永远不会忘记疫情造成的困难。但她表示，她希望在大自然中学习能成为他们2020年的美好回忆。
她说：“他们看到了周围的户外环境，这给他们的学习带来了关联性。他们会永远记住的。”
我是亚曼·卡萨比。
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