Nature's Classroom, Hillsborough County, Florida
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Nature's Classroom is an outdoor educational center opened in 1927 on Verges Road in Thonotosassa, Florida.
Nature's Classroom is located on 365 acres owned by Southwest Florida Water Management District in Northeast Hillsborough County on the Hillsborough River. Nature's Classroom offers all public school sixth-grade students in Hillsborough County a three-day, hands on, minds-on learning adventure.
Children from private schools are also able to attend the facility, as well as children with special needs. It is combined with two weeks of classroom study in which students utilize reading, writing, and math skills in investigating the complex interrelationships found in the Hillsborough River watershed.