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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Some Grand Rapids Public Schools students will soon ditch the desks for a natural classroom outside.
The district and Grand Rapids city leaders Monday officially broke ground on a new outdoor classroom and natural playscape at Plaster Creek Family Park. Students of Burton’s elementary and middle schools helped create the plans, with six fifth-graders leading park audits and surveys and providing recommendations to the project team.
The outdoor classroom dubbed “The Nest” will have raised planters for a vegetable garden, a rain garden, a meadow of native plants and community picnic area.
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