About 15 elementary school students listened to a story and made crafts on Wednesday afternoon as Hamilton County Schools introduced its first mobile learning lab.
The small bus is one of three labs that will serve K-5 students in the district. Teachers will conduct lessons in different locations within the community to supplement students’ learning outside the classroom.
On Wednesday, the lab parked outside East Ridge Elementary School with East Ridge teachers Jennifer Defur and Rita Schubert setting up their lesson at the front entrance to the school. The teachers laid out towels and arranged craft supplies and decorations on two tables to engage students.
Defur told the Times Free Press that the mobile learning lab will travel to popular areas to conduct the lessons, about once a month.
“When we do this again, probably end of July, first of August, we’re going to go to Food City or Walmart, we’re going to pick an area outside of the school and set up there,” Defur said. “We’ll do a call out and have anybody in the Missionary Ridge learning community to come out.”