Outdoor Learning

Cascade School District incorporates outdoor, place-based experiences for students connected to district curriculum into their teaching. This goal connects with the strategic framework components The Outdoors and Connected Relationships.

Beaver Valley School's Wildlife Trail Cameras

Beaver Valley School with support from their parent group monitors trail cameras near their school and puts together a video each year for our viewing pleasure.

Please click on the link below:

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Beaver Valley School students release lamprey into the Wenatchee River

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Peshastin-Dryden Elementary's Outdoor Classroom

Peshastin-Dryden Elementary School was supported by an OPSI grant to create an accessible outdoor classroom at Kiwanis Park next to the Wenatchee River.

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Rattlesnake Hill Renovation

Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance in partnership with Cascade School District and parent organizations built an accessible trail up nearby Rattlesnake Hill.

Community Partnerships

  • Cascadia Conservation

  • Chelan Co Natural Resources

  • Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance

  • Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery

  • Pacific Education Institute

  • Tall Timber

  • Waste Loop

  • Wenatchee River Institute

  • Winton Manufacturing, Inc

  • US Fish & Wildlife

FieldSTEM District of the Year

With a dedicated, highly trained staff, and beautiful geography, including the Cascade Mountains and the Wenatchee River, Cascade School District has found a natural emphasis on FieldSTEM, taking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outdoors. Cascade students work on real-world problems that are integrated, career, connected, and locally relevant. Cascade teachers have received training from the Pacific Education Institute (PEI) on their FieldSTEM model.  In October 2023, Cascade SD was named PEI FieldSTEM District of the year. Please see our video here.

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Goal 2

Outdoor Learning as you can see above is Goal 2 of our District Improvement Plan.