Durham Students Learn About Nature First Hand
By Paul Matadeen, NBC17 Reporter
DURHAM, N.C. — More than 100 Durham elementary school students got a real world nature lesson on Tuesday afternoon.
The Durham Soil and Water Conservation District hosted the second day of the Second Annual Durham County Environmental Field Days. The event was held at the amphitheater at West Point on the Eno in Durham.
According to school officials, the afternoon event was designed to complement the fifth grade science curriculum. It gave students the opportunity to learn about the environment in a natural setting.
Students learned to wash clothes with river water, cook food without a stove and they even churned their own butter.
“They had no electricity. They had to make their fires, which usually now people can just go buy things,” said fourth grader Sara Turner.
Organizer Julia Bove said learning about nature and North Carolina’s history was a natural compliment to what their classroom education.
“You know, they have very limited ways of finding out what things were like back then, so this is kind of like giving them a little hint,” she said.
Fourth grader Lewis Moore was excited about a nut-containing fruit found in the park.
“There’s lots of things that you can learn, teach your children,” Moore said about his nature experience.
“We learned about the history of North Carolina. North Carolina’s a good place,” he said.
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