By Courtney Davis, Environmental Education Intern
Our youth summer programming began last week. The topic was trees!
Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s essay The Good Oak where he introduces annual tree rings as history books, students wrote creative stories about what they thought their “adopted” tree experienced in past years. Our eco-discoverers also enjoyed making their very own 3-D tree. The eco-explorers got the chance to paddle in a homemade birch bark canoe.
The students also spent time counting the annual rings of a 100 plus year old tree! They could not image the land 100 years ago. Their imagination ran wild!
A student stares at her “adopted” tree. How old could this tree be?
Photo by Courtney D.
Eco-discoverers show off their very own 3-D tree.
Photo by Courtney D.
Eco-explorers paddle a birch bark canoe!
Photo by Courtney D.
Photo by Courtney D.
Photo by Courtney D.
Photo by Courtney D.
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