Place-based learning, Swan Valley Connections brings monthly lessons to Swan Valley Elementary School

Standing in a circle under an afternoon autumn blue sky, big fluffy clouds blocking the view here and there, the students of Swan Valley Elementary School were told to be a tree.

More specifically, a model of a tree.

Taylor Tewksbury, education program coordinator with Swan Valley Connections, explained that models are examples and scientists use them to understand something without, in a tree's case, needing to chop it down. Students made concentric circles of their classmates and were assigned different layers of a tree - the xylem, cambium, phloem and bark. Each layer had a catch phrase. Fo...

 

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