Using a shovel’s blade to measure, Piper Rothschild mapped out the size of a round hole for a sapling. The hole needs to be twice as wide as the sapling’s root, she instructed the community volunteers around her. She then dug the tip of her shovel into the turf, used her body weight to push.
At Evanston Township High School, Tyrone spent the fall protecting his flock. The rooster would make sure all eight of the hens at the school ate first, according to ETHS science teacher Ellen Fierer. When people picked up Tyrone and pet him, he’d just close his eyes and let himself be held, she added. “He.
In past winters, Scott Meier cut holes through a frozen pond to show his students the phytoplankton and zooplankton living under the ice. Meier, an Evanston Township High School biology teacher, said the exercise at the ETHS Nature Center showed students parts of the ecosystem they didn’t previously expect. “The water is actually still alive,”.