Worth County Primary School opened in 1995, surrounded by a featureless wasteland of Georgia red clay. In order to enhance the school grounds and facilitate science education, a decision was made to create an outdoor classroom and several unique gardens. After forming a partnership with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Forestry Commission, the students began to bring their vision to life. Every child that passes through school has an opportunity to work and learn in the garden. To date, nearly 1,000 students have been involved with this project.

This outdoor classroom features a nature trail, individual classroom gardens, a school garden with themed garden areas, as well as general landscaping. The school garden is the largest of the gardens. This garden is divided into themed areas, with school curriculums and lesson plans based around each section. There is an ABC Garden, Bird and Butterfly Gardens, and a Memory Garden. One feature of the storybook garden is "Tops and Bottoms," where the roots of live plants can be observed from an underground perspective through a Plexiglas box. Students can learn about weather and time in another portion of the garden with a thermometer, rain gauge, weather vane, and sundial. "Musical Playscape" has nine outdoor instruments, including a rain wheel, marimba, two metallophones, a set of stamping tubes, and four drums.

Through hard work and determination, Worth County Primary School has earned official recognition from the National Wildlife Federation as a certified "Schoolyard Habitat". The garden has been featured in the publication "Grace From the Garden: Changing The World One Garden at a Time." Two of the principal faculty members that are involved in the project were honored in 2002 as Scott's Give Back to Grow Classroom Gardeners of the Year.

Future goals of the Worth County Primary School Outdoor Classroom include revamping the "Musical Playscape" and expanding the current Storybook Garden to include a "Book Boat." Through these gardens, Worth County students are learning to appreciate the importance of science, enjoy nature, and have even been exposed to music in a unique way. Even though many have graduated from Worth County Primary School, several former students come back to visit the garden that they planted.

According to the National Geographic Society, "The Worth County Primary School Outdoor Classroom project in Sylvester, Georgia is a fine example of a school-wide program that helps to increase students' awareness of environmental issues and concerns. They have incorporated disciplines such as music, science, social studies, art, math, geography, and language arts in an outdoor classroom setting on their refurbished school grounds. They are truly fostering a love of the natural world in a multi-disciplinary setting through their nature trail, classroom garden, themed gardens, and unique landscaping. The National Geographic Society, and organization whose mission is to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education, is proud to join SeaWorld and Busch Gardens in recognizing Worth County Primary School with an Environmental Excellence Award."