Taking the Common Core standards outside.
Last summer some Montana news reports predicted Glacier National Park’s dwindling glacier supply could disappear as early as next year. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) places the 26 remaining glaciers’ demise somewhere between the years 2030 and 2080, or within most of our children or grandchildren’s lifetime. The article, “Retreat […]
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This past week I spent a good portion of my Facebook time gazing longingly at photos our science teachers posted from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. These teachers advise our school’s Plastics Club, so they were at the aquarium learning how our plastic trash raises havoc with the oceans. Speaking of plastics, our high school’s Plastics […]
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Since I go back to Montana at least annually, I’d heard of Red Ants Pants and its music festival for years. My mom is a fan of Red Ants Pants owner Sarah Calhoun, who created her own line of outdoor work clothes for women when she discovered women were expected to just put on what […]
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We hadn’t been on the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District’s nature trails in almost a year, so we jumped at the chance of a bird watching hike when the e-mail invite landed in my inbox. A bunch of people beat me to the reply button, though, and Sacramento Sewer placed us on a waiting list. […]
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