JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) – Science teachers at James Island Charter High School are equipping students with tools to collect and analyze scientific data, especially how rising sea levels are changing the local environment. We hope that you will support us in providing this.
Eve Kendrick believes her students could be the key to solving the Lowcountry’s serious environmental problems.
“My students are so engaged, passionate, and full of life,” she says. “I want to capture and harvest that energy and harness it for environmental stewardship by learning about different aspects of sea level rise in environmental science.”
Kendrick plans to encourage this management through an actual research project in the field examining coastal freshwater streams. This project aims to document how rising sea levels and movement of salt water inland are changing these freshwater environments.
“We’re going to look at insects and use these insects as indicators of how our rivers are changing,” she says. “They’ll be able to process these samples outside in riverbeds and really get a personal connection to these ecosystems that maybe haven’t been looked at as something important to monitor before.” Sho.”
Kendrick hopes to give students the tools to do this monitoring through a project on Donor Choice called “Too Much Salt! Sea Level Rise and the Freshwater Environment.”
She plans to purchase nets, waders, sieves, and other testing equipment to track how these delicate coastal environments are being affected.
“I’m going to partner with the Adopt-a-Stream organization in South Carolina, so this data that my students collect through my ‘Too Salty’ Donors Choice project will actually be stored in the state’s database. ” Kendrick said. “Scientists will have access to it and students will be able to take ownership of the research that is currently being done in the state.”
With your donation, Kendrick says, you can make an impact not only on students, but also on the local environment now and in the future.
“We’re going to bring all our skills to the table and get them outside and allow (students) to actually get their hands dirty, get their hands wet, and actually collect insects and process their own data. ” she says. “I think being outside and having a personal connection with the environment helps inspire students to become lifelong learners. I also think that getting outside and having a personal connection with the environment helps inspire students to become lifelong learners, and it also helps them learn how to manage their environment as they move forward as adults and citizens in South Carolina.” We may even encourage you to do so.”
Kendrick is also working on a second Donors Choice project called “Interactive Biology and Data Analysis.” This project aims to bring biological concepts to life through collaboration, realistic case studies, and interactive labs. She plans to use basic resources such as calculators and clipboards funded through the project to create notebooks documenting students’ problem solving and analysis.
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