Going WILD in 2021

This school year marked a return to in person learning, but with masks still required, we spent much of of our time learning outside in the WILD Lab. All  lessons reflected the year's theme of  investigating properties of materials.

Fourth grade students worked on building tee-pees in the WILD Lab. 

Fifth graders made string and rope with the natural materials found in the WILD Lab.

All students kept journals documenting their wondering, investigating, learning and doing.

In addition to their investigations into the properties of materials the two classes also participated in Citizen Science activities. Fourth graders replaced all the bluebird boxes in the WILD Lab and then monitored them for the Bluebird Society.

Fifth graders documented the phenology of the lab...each adopting and recording weekly leaf out of an Autumn Olive tree. Their data was submitted to Project Budburst.

The lower school spent the year investigating the properties of materials used in fairy tales such as the straw, sticks and bricks used by the three little pigs. Whenever possible, their investigations and engineering projects were done outside. The teacher/photographer neglected to get any pictures of their structures..