Abington Friends School had completed plans for a children's garden, Nature Playground, adjacent to their early childhood classrooms. MA&D was hired to create a place for open-ended, physical play that would anchor the garden experience. It needed to reflect the Reggio-informed learning principles that form the core of the school's philosophy: child-directed, contact with nature and welcoming for the whole family.

Certified by the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation as first school-based Nature Explore Classroom in Pennsylvania.