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Crispell students use science, coding and art to educate about endangered animals

Students are using STEAM to help spread the word about our environment and endangered animals!

Two students work on a board that has wires attached to it. It is on a table and in the background are shelves with library books on them.

The sixth-grade students in Michael Sabini’s science class have come to the library to work with Lisa Metz and Education Technology Specialist Hope Schaumburg to research biomes and identify endangered animals in these biomes.

 

Three sixth-grade kids work on a chromebook and a board where one student is drawing.

 

Research indicates animal habitats are increasingly threatened because of habitat loss and global climate change. Constructing a presentation board, using coding with SCRATCH, and a Makey Makey kit to take over their computer, students set out to alert everyone about the dangers and the mitigating strategies needed to save these animals, which included the snow leopard, orangutan, sea turtle, Javan rhinoceros  and mountain gorilla.

 

A table near a window. There is a chromebook on the table with wires coming from it and going into a board at various places. The board has information and pictures on it about a Javan rhinoceros.

 

 

They learned about the animal, created interactive displays that answer many questions about the animal’s habitat, the dangers they face and how to best protect them. They recorded their own voices to answer questions with just a push of a button, with photos to back-up the information.

Three middle-school students - two boys and a girl - work together on a project with chromebooks on a table, several different colored wires and a board made of cardboard.

 

Great project, combining science, technology and art for these very curious and capable students!

 

Four students stand around a table with a female teacher. The boy on the right, with sandy hair and a gray sweatshirt on, points to something on the board they are building as the others look at it.

 

Pine Bush Central School District
State Route 302, Pine Bush, NY 12566
Phone: (845) 744-2031
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Amy Brockner
Interim Superintendent of Schools
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