Tulsa Educare 4 - Celia Clinton Campus

Award-Winning Project

JONESPLAN, the official construction partner of outdoor classroom design-build company Good Fieldwork, built six state-of-the-art outdoor classrooms at Tulsa Educare’s flagship campus. Each classroom is uniquely age appropriate for the three separate age groups and designed to maximize developmental opportunities for outdoor learning in both the physical and mental sense.

The central courtyard for non-mobile infants, three classrooms for infants and toddlers, and a classroom and a bike path & water playground for Pre-K students are major focal points for the facility.

Hand-crafted and fully custom elements include wooden boardwalks, a cedar and rope obstacle course, a sunken slide pit, shade structures crafted from New Mexican vigas and latillas, boulder mountains, wooden huts and nests, and a reading tower.

Each classroom has a wide array of child-safe landscaping and several types of natural play and walking surfaces.

Architect: Good Fieldwork with consultation by Howell & Vancuren Architects

Project Type: Education

Size: 1/2 acre

Self-Performance: 100%

natural water tables centered in a sensory pathway
aerial view of nature classroom with natural fencing surrounding sensory ground surfaces and a bamboo water feature
teacher helping young boy use outdoor classroom hand pump for water feature
outdoor classroom natural shade structure and enclosed reading tower
young boy running with arms wide open through a rain shower water feature in an outdoor classroom
aerial view of nature classroom bike path surrounding natural water tables
view of outdoor classroom slide surrounded by stone climbing area with more climbing features up top
sensory pathway leading to outdoor classroom reading nook with two adirondack chairs and books
outdoor classroom action area surround by large stones for climbing, natural fencing and logs
aerial view of outdoor classroom raised garden beds, log tunnel, sensory pathways and bike path