Science Enrichment

Science Enrichment activities are in full swing. All grades have completed their fall garden plantings. We’re hoping to keep the deer and rabbits out of our crop–especially the Brussels sprouts and collards we set out. We can’t wait to try kindergarten’s “tiny little cabbages off a stalk”! Impatient 3rd graders were sure that after one […]

We’ve also spent several weeks talking about the essential components of ecosystems–food, water, shelter, and space–and how they affect population density. We played a fun “deer” game and a few of the classes even had a “mountain lion” in their environment. Ask them what happened to population depending on the amount of resources available, and in some cases, with predation.
This exercise has led up to actually identifying “mast” sources around our school. After a dab of the fresh seeds and fruit on our tongues, we all agree we don’t want to have to eat acorns or green persimmons for our food sources. We’ve even found some “skat” from our campus fox and we’ve used it to see what the little critter has been eating (loving those persimmons!). Native beauty berries, pokeberry/salat, and persimmon trees, along with invasive honeysuckle, privet, and mimosa are our new botany IDs.