HANDS ON LEARNING

Learning at Hidden Villa is hands-on. Students sink their fingers into the sheep's soft wool while learning about the many valuable products we get from farm animals. In the garden, students hunt for familiar foods as they learn about helpful decomposers and the 6 plant parts. Hiking through the forest, students turn into detectives as they discover mini-habitats of animals and medicinal plants Native Americans once used.

Being encouraged to learn from your own experiences is exciting. Because of this everyone in our class loves learning at Hidden Villa. However, this doesn't mean that everything at Hidden Villa is easy. Hands-on learning requires that you take risks and try new things. If you do, we guarantee that you'll learn a lot and have tons of fun!

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	"I enjoyed learning about the organic garden. The guides at Hidden Villa helped me learn by letting me touch the plants and soil and actually do the steps to have our own ogranic garden." - Maria
	"Learning at Hidden Villa is different because at Hidden Villa you can see the animal from close and how it moves and how it looks. You can hold them and touch them and tell what it is. A textbook is different because you only see the animals and it tells you where it lives and all that, but you can't see where it REALLY lives or where you can find it." - Uziel
	"I felt excited to go back to Hidden Villa because I get to be a detective and scientist at the same time. I enjoyed being a detective because we needed to look for clues." - Cindy