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eMammal Animals Inspire "Poems for Your Pocket"

 
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In honor of "Poem in Your Pocket Day," students of Lena Deskins' 5th grade class at Sandy Ridge Elementary School took to their pens using eMammal camera trap photos as their muse. Students were inspired by coyotes, deer, squirrels, and turkeys. They are participating in an experiment to see how animals react to novel objects (in this case, a plastic lawn flamingo!). Not only did they get fantastic animal shots, but they also observed a coyote biting the flamingo, a man trying to take the flamingo, and a boy messing with the camera. Below are their poems and some of the camera trap photos…

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Spring into Discovery with eMammal’s Teacher of the Year

 

The Students Discover project partners researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Kenan fellow teachers across the state in an unique collaboration to scale citizen science projects to teachers across the state, nation, and even world. eMammal is used as a hands-on, critical-thinking approach in the classroom to satisfy state and national educational standards while allowing students to participate in important biodiversity research. Twenty-one…

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