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On April 17, Marion elementary students who are involved with the SEEDS After School Program and their families gathered at the Marion Mill Pond for a day of fishing, fun and learning. Trout Unlimited also supplied a variety of displays and activities to engage children in learning about fish and their habitats including a stream-table to teach about maintaining clean watersheds and a work table for identifying macroinvertebrates in the water.
Courtesy of Erin Horton, Marion Elementary SEEDS S
On April 17, Marion elementary students who are involved with the SEEDS After School Program and their families gathered at the Marion Mill Pond for a day of fishing, fun and learning. Trout Unlimited also supplied a variety of displays and activities to engage children in learning about fish and their habitats including a stream-table to teach about maintaining clean watersheds and a work table for identifying macroinvertebrates in the water.
The current school year has been full of significant changes for staff, students and their families.
Virtual learning, different schedules, canceled events and limited outside interaction have all been part of the landscape. What that has meant is volunteers, assemblies, and other events have not been part of the typical school day or after school.
For programs like D.A.R.E. or SEEDS After School, the pandemic has meant altering what they do or stopping altogether due to safety protocols at the school to limit student and staff exposure to outside sources.
Wexford County D.A.R.E. officer Cory Lipar said the sheriffâs office is still doing its due diligence within all the countyâs school districts whenever possible, but as far as getting into the classrooms that has not happened.