A New Outdoor Learning Geodesic Dome School Design

Year 2022, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 3 - 8, 30.06.2022

Elif Esin Bakır , Bahattin Aydınlı

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to ensure that out-of-school learning environments for a sustainable environmental education in our world, which is under the threat of global warming, are started to be implemented in science and mathematics disciplines as of pre-school period, apart from primary, secondary and high school levels. The procedures for obtaining permission for school managers and teachers, high operating costs, seen as dangerous and a waste of time for parents are the problems of reaching out-of-school learning environments. In order to eliminate these problems, a school model was designed, which is located in the school garden, with an architecture in the form of an atomic model and included workshops created as a geodesic dome.

Keywords

Science and mathematics, out-of-school, geodesic dome, workshops.

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