Windsor 3rd graders are getting out of the classroom to learn about biodiversity.
Weeks Elementary students spent Thursday at the Roberson Museum in Binghamton learning about the different species that live in our local lands from graduate students in Bighamton University’s Biology department.
“Our lab focuses on biodiversity and disease, and the relationship between the two – how greater biodiversity means lesser disease,” said Kyra Ricci, a PhD student at Binghamton University.
“We’re focused on biodiversity in our lessons,” said Windsor CSD elementary science teacher Deb Kalivoda. “We’re studying local wetlands and the animals that live there.”
Ricci and her team gathered a number of green frogs, wood frogs, eastern newts, and bullfrogs at the Binghamton University nature preserve early Thursday morning to have Weeks students observe. The elementary students helped the graduate students identify and graph the species.
“The students are helping us count them and graph the information,” said Ricci.
3rd graders from Palmer and Bell Elementary schools will visit Roberson next week to engage in the biodiversity lesson.