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Trent Students Teach Local School Children About Environmental Science |
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The event presented an opportunity for the students to develop an exhibit that interested the children in environmental science concepts through hands on learning. As well, it allowed the students to test some of the ideas and techniques learned in their ERSC-BIOL 270 course, Environmental Science for Teacher Education. The exhibits were self-directed learning centres with a combination of media and materials to allow the children to learn from the displays with some facilitation from the exhibit designers. There were 18 exhibits on subjects related to the Ontario Science Curriculum including What's in Water?, Explore the Rainforest, and Pesticides Target Animals. "We're trying to convey the importance of plants. The idea is to get them to realize how plants are used in everyday life," said Trent student Jamie Boone of her exhibit Plants Who Needs Them? that she designed with Jessica Jeffery and Melissa Wharran.
"We tried to pick things that relate to the children in some way." The three students wore colour-coded outfits - Ms. Boone dressed in yellow for sunlight, Ms. Jeffery wore blue for water and Ms. Wharran wore green and brown to represent plantlife. The children left the exhibit with sunflower seeds to plant on their own. The event ran throughout the school day. About 250 students in Grades 1 to 6 attended the exhibition. The Trent students will be graded on their exhibits and each one must write an individual report on the project. The Environmental Science Exhibit is one of two practica in the course. The second, based on outdoor education, will be held in March at Camp Kawartha. Photo 1: Trent student Laura Albrecht shows three Grade 1 students at Millbrook South Cavan Public School her exhibit on Pesticides. Photo 2: (l-r) Jamie Boone, Melissa Wharran and Jessica Jeffery with their exhibit Plants ... Who Needs Them? Posted December 2, 2005
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Trent University students taking the Environmental and Resource Science - Biology 270 course hosted an Environmental Science Exhibition at Millbrook South Cavan Public School on Wednesday, November 30, 2005.
The exhibit demonstrated that bread, clothes and even the soles of shoes are made from plants.