Rouse-Flick Learning Tower

The Rouse-Flick Learning Tower is a staple of the Living Classrooms Foundation campus, and overlooks Baltimore Harbor. On top of the tower, Living Classrooms students learn how to use binoculars, track pollution in the harbor, learn navigation and identify Baltimore's landmarks, and conduct physics experiments. Its unparalleled views of the harbor and city skyline gives student an opportunity to see Baltimore from a unique point of view, and promotes place-making, the process by which community members understand, connect to, and shape the spaces around them.

Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students (BUGS) is an outdoor environmental education program  that focuses on the urban environment. Students at The Crossroads School learn about gardening, urban ecology, the watershed, environmental and social justice issues, sustainability, and cooking and nutrition through STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) style learning. BUGS complements the school day and gives students the opportunity to develop and apply new knowledge and skills to real-world situations relating to the environment around them through hands-on activities and project-based learning.