Dave Mc
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
"Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Grabarkiewicz <threehorn_wartyback-in-yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:47 pm
Subject: NANFA-L-- Bringing the Inner City to the Natives
> The city came out to the farm today. Forty-one inner city junior
> high kids (and we are talking INNER CITY) came out to a small park
> in ol' Northwest Ohio to get "hands on" experience with streams
> and wetlands.
>
> After I put them through a macroinvertebrate ID excercise and
> showed them the fish I collected in the morning, I got the
> question. "Um, Jeff, can we go in the stream?". With some
> apprehension, and some ground rules, I let them bang around in the
> one single riffle of a small stream. Four-in-a time, and your
> hands must be wet if you touch a fish :)
>
> I've never seen kids as excited and happy as these kids were. Not
> only the guys, but the girls all came in as well. In their
> clothes. No waders, no shorts. School clothes, with new
> sneakers. They were so desperate to touch nature (i.e. crayfish,
> craneflies, greensides, stonerollers) and to just be in the
> stream. Many came back in after their turns, and stuck around to
> look under stones for mayflies later on.
>
> Most of us wouldn't of even shook a stick-in-the species list, but
> the kids didn't care. They just wanted to be outside touching things.
>
> A feel good story from Jeff.
>
>
>
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