New Elementary School Bird Education Program Takes Learning to New Heights

By Lillian Schneider | June 22, 2022
Group of kids holding up sketches in the forest

Over the 2021-22 school year, Jefferson Land Trust expanded our youth education programming with an exciting new year-long bird project with three third-grade classes and two multi-age OPEPO (OPtional Education PrOgram) class of second, third, fourth, and fifth graders at Salish Coast Elementary School in Port Townsend. Birds are not only interesting and iconic, they’re…

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“Salmon School! What Will Happen Next?”: An Audiobook from Salish Coast Elementary First Graders

By Lillian Schneider | April 27, 2022

“Salmon School! What Will Happen Next?” is an audiobook by Ms. Stengel’s 2020-21 first grade class at Salish Coast Elementary. Inspired by their year-long project of raising salmon eggs (roe) in the classroom for eventual release into Chimacum Creek at Illahee Preserve, the story is about a student named Sam who finds himself transformed into…

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