YA Eco Mysteries, Memoirs, Novels & Travel
13 January 2013
Writing Eco Mysteries 10
16/01/13 18:17 Filed in: Environment
Eco-Brains Students Help Biologists with Bird Banding
My adventure in writing the eco mystery, The Return of The Red-cockaded Clan, continues at Gwin Elementary School with Traci Knight Ingleright’s “Eco-Brains” fifth graders. You see, in each eco mystery the protagonists help protect an endangered or threatened species. To do this they must solve a complex eco mystery and then take action to save that species. The “bird bag project” the Eco Brains are working on is the missing “action ingredient” I need.
I first heard about the project from Helena Umber Wamble, Education Director of the Birmingham Audubon Society. As a result, I spent a fascinating morning with Mrs. Ingleright’s fifth graders, observing them working on this special project. Read More...
My adventure in writing the eco mystery, The Return of The Red-cockaded Clan, continues at Gwin Elementary School with Traci Knight Ingleright’s “Eco-Brains” fifth graders. You see, in each eco mystery the protagonists help protect an endangered or threatened species. To do this they must solve a complex eco mystery and then take action to save that species. The “bird bag project” the Eco Brains are working on is the missing “action ingredient” I need.
I first heard about the project from Helena Umber Wamble, Education Director of the Birmingham Audubon Society. As a result, I spent a fascinating morning with Mrs. Ingleright’s fifth graders, observing them working on this special project. Read More...