We couldn’t go to the park today because of rain, but we made the most of it! Most of our visiting scientists were able to teach us inside, and several of our teachers went around to classrooms with a special Earth Day lesson. We often talk about teaching our students, especially our girls, about women in science. Coincidentally, today we had six visiting scientists or science teachers and they were all women!
Thanks to the following people for running stations at Cottage Lane!
- Sonya Ciaro from Keep Rockland Beautiful
- The Cornell Cooperative Extention who did a center on composting
- Carol Knudson, a scientist who works with Riverkeeper (pictures below of students fishing for plankton)
- Dr. Margie Turrin , the Education Coordinator at Lamont-Doherty taught a hands-on activity about the Piermont marsh
- Suez Water representatives taught about the water cycle
- Parents Sabina Tyler and Maral Kalishian who ran a garden center
- Math Coach Shannon Sorrentino who taught our students about the Fibonacci sequence
- Our school psychologist Sean Jones who led a mindfulness workshop
- Science Coach Samantha Levine played a marsh jeopardy game with many of our students
- Our reading teachers Beth Leibrock and Suzanne Dowd who presented our readers with Hudson River Riddles
- Our art teachers Jean Bowler and Tatiana DiPierno who did natural art lessons today
And a special thanks to Jacob Tanenbaum for orchestrating this amazing day for our students! Hopefully next year we will be back outside, but it was a very productive, inspiring day!
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