LISA PURCELL: "We know that we want kids to be learning hands-on and make discoveries in their own backyard. We’d love it to be something that they’ve walked by for years without noticing it. And then we start thinking about how we’ll get kids excited about that. What will the puppet show need to include for students to understand the life of a goldenrod gallfly, for example?”
BARBARA KLEIN: Kelli Bates, a teacher in Chittenden, Vermont, says the programs are popular with students.
KELLI BATES: "One year we were doing something with trees and the kids were actually parts of the tree. Some would be the trunk, and kids were actually laying on the floor being the roots. And things like that just connect these science theories in a way that they can understand.”
One afternoon a month, Lisa Purcell does science activities with first graders.
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She explains that owls eat things whole, then spit up pellets filled with whatever they could not digest. She has the students examine clean owl pellets ordered from a website.
LISA PURCELL: "And then in teams of two -- no, they're very clean, look."
CHILDREN: "Oooh!"
LISA PURCELL: "They don't smell bad or anything. We’re going to very carefully pull these apart, OK?"
Seven-year-olds Gracie Stahura and Sophia Husack are looking at the remains of a very small animal, a vole, that they found in a pellet.
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