I liked the idea of having everyone sit in our "favourite spot" from last class and observe any changes. I think for rowdy teenagers, it's a nice way to calm them down, get them focused for the class and have them also appreciate the world around them. Especially when climate change was brought up near the end of class, I think having people appreciate nature increases the incentive to try to preserve it.
In terms of incorporating outdoors and math together, it reminded me of back in high school, there was a class where students went outdoors to measure the height of the school using angles and distance (application of trigonometry calculations in the real world). I think this could also be applied to measuring other things in the garden, such as the height of a tree. Additionally, when making the rope, I ended up making a loop at one end and thought about how it could be used to hang things and I think it could be used in physics, for example, in creating a pulley system. The outdoor, creative, hands-on, exploratory aspects of outdoor teaching makes lessons more enjoyable and interesting by finding ways to use the theoretical concepts learned in the classroom for solving problems in real life.
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