I work at Allen Elementary School, in Bow, WA, on Wednesday afternoons. With funding from a STEM grant, I am the coordinator of the Ecology Club and have been from January and will be through June. We are studying water quality, exploring the LAWS of plants, experimenting with worms, cleaning up trash, looking at birds, and other things...
I hope to share my passion for birds by getting some live Red-tailed chicks in, disecting shellfish (maybe tomorrow!), and getting advice from the outreach coordinator at the local Co-op regarding a new school garden... yes, we hope to get a garden in school! We'll see how successful we are in all of this. If nothing else by the end of this program, hopefully students will have been exposed to many elements in the ecosystem and will have gotten outdoors a bunch. They will have the seeds and foundations for stewardship, environmental consideration, and opportunities to engage with the natural world. I hope they just have fun and enjoy their free snacks too!
From an email from the STEM coordinator:
A big thank you to Jim Logan for creating the STEM page on our District Website! You can access it by clicking on the link on our homepage or via special programs. Thank you so much Jim! This looks fabulous, and is a wonderful representation of what STEM aims to be and how STEM is rolling out into our schools.
Just one of the many facets to my environmental education, nature-connection, mentoring work....
-DS-
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