On December 3, Seth Boyden Elementary School is hosted the local "premiere" of the film, "When Learning Comes Naturally." The 28-minute documentary highlighting the use of nature in education and featuring Seth Boyden teachers and students aired on PBS in September.

The presentation at Seth Boyden took place at 7 p.m. The screening was free to the public.

Here, we've attached a clip from the video. In it, Lawrence, a second grader at Seth Boyden School last year, made a strong impression on the documentarians visiting his school when he examined some of the plants on his own and reflected on their oxygen-giving power.

"Plants are like a superhero ... because they help people live," said Lawrence, who was 7 at the time.

One of four institutions to be featured, Seth Boyden was initially suggested by collaborators at Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute, according to Jonathan Diamond, the program's executive producer, director and writer. Shooting took place in October 2008 over a two-week period, but the filmmakers visited the school during pre-production to ensure that they'd be able to get the needed access to students, teachers and classrooms.

"Seth Boyden just impressed us from the get-go," recalled Diamond, who noted that Principal Mark Quiles and then-Assistant to the Principal Tina Lehn were extremely supportive of the endeavor.

The classes of Marcie Chanin, Linda Bartholomew and Bernice Popp are included in the finished product, but due to the length of the program and the amount of footage captured at Seth Boyden, not everything could be included. Diamond was struck by footage of third and fourth grade writing classes, where children would go outside to encounter bumblebees and wildflowers and then take notes and write about them, but he didn't have space for it in the final edit.

"We could have made this program three times as long," he said.

Editor's note: Footage is courtesy of Jonathan Diamond Associates.