A safe learning environment encourages inquiry and promotes growth. Students at Walden Community School are encouraged and guided to take risks, explore, discover, question, examine, and to evaluate ideas, interests and concepts. Such learning requires a safe, supportive and nurturing environment where collaboration and relationships are cultivated.

Ceremonial Burial of Cluckankhamun, our mummified chicken. We built a tomb in our studies of Egypt and entombed him on the property. We will go on an archeological dig at the end of this school year and “discover” him.

Building a false chamber for Cluckankhamun's sarcophagus in our Egyptian Tomb.

Egyptian Burial Rites for Cluckankhamun

Observing Sea Dragons at the Marine Science Center at Ponce Inlet, FL

Studying the jaw bones of sharks native to the Florida coasts

Viewing x-rays of turtles being rehabilitated at the Turtle Rehabilitation Center, Ponce Inlet, FL