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| Rockford students participated in the Egg Contraption: an exercise to demonstrate how much weight a healthy eggshell can support. This is an important topic in our conversation about DDT and peregrine eggs. |
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| Education Program Manager Gail Buhl shows a raptor patient x-ray. |
The Raptor Center hosted several middle schools at our site
recently. The students engaged in
several hands-on learning opportunities such as critical observation and sketching
of raptor artifacts and some of our winged ambassadors, meeting our clinical
interns and learning what it is like to do a physical exam of a raptor patient,
and how bird banding can teach us links to birds and our shared environment.
These visits are part of an ongoing curriculum integration program to create opportunities for schoolchildren to deepen their engagement with environmental topics. Rockford Middle School was the first to partner with The Raptor Center. Over the past four years we have partnered together, instructors have shared the impacts these multiple-visits have had on their students. Students learn critical scientific investigation skills presented as part of the integration program, as well as applications for real-world problem solving within environmental frameworks. The Raptor Center has appeared at events that Rockford hosts for parents and community members to view and experience the events taking place at the school.
Rockford was also recently designated as a Department of
Education Green Ribbon School. Students
and staff are devoted to reducing waste and lessening their environmental impact.
Exploratory classes created a waste challenge.
Education about organics recycling among students and staff diverted 47 tons
of organic waste from a landfill into compost.
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