[CPEO-BIF] "Field trip to former city landfill allows middle school students to problem solve, " Colonial Heights, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Field trip to former city landfill allows middle school students to  
problem solve

By ShelMertens

Petersburg Progress-Index (VA)
December 19. 2014

COLONIAL HEIGHTS - Deer tracks, dead snails and centipedes were among  
the special guests for Colonial Heights Middle School student  
visiting the city's former landfill as part of the school’s science,  
technology, engineering and math (STEM) initiative.

The students were challenged with the question of why there are so  
many seagulls in the brownfield area off East Roslyn Road when there  
is no ocean nearby. The field trip allowed students to get real life  
scientific fieldwork experience by measuring water and soil quality,  
as well as population sampling.

The field trip is part of a year-long project. The landfill, which  
closed down in the 1970s, has since attracted a large number of  
seagulls that aren’t supposed to live in the environment, said Kate  
Ewalt, seventh grade life science teacher.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.progress-index.com/article/20141219/NEWS/141219696/13316/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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