7/25/2009

Kids learn science by digging in the dirt

The Wenatchee world, July 24, 2009

How do you teach young kids science? Let them dig in the dirt.

That's Jody Marquardt's technique. Marquardt is education coordinator for the Barn Beach Reserve in Leavenworth, where 14 first- through fifth-graders were enrolled in Adventures in Art and Science camps this week.

"We're looking for worms, centipedes, millipedes, cockroaches, beetles, spiders and ants," she told her troop of the camp's four youngest explorers Thursday. "Use your trowel to turn over bricks and pine needles because you don't know what you're going to find under there."

Bugs were scarce in the very dry soil beneath the pines on Reserve property along the Wenatchee River. But a little digging exposed some tiny critters that scrambled for cover. Read more...

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