 PHOTO: KAY HINTON
Participants in the Oxford Institute for Environmental Education hunt for critters in a creek near Oxford College.
The program is designed to help teachers develop lesson plans using their own schoolyards for scientific investigation.
Oxford institute is fertile ground for environmental education
Down in the backwoods of Newton County, the pristine waters of Bear Creek are yielding a treasure trove of critters for teachers Lindsay Wyczalkowski and Missy Snyder. Armed with nets, tweezers and glass jars, the teachers are on the hunt for hellgrammites, darters, fly larvae and the like. When they land the big prize — a massive crayfish — their whoops echo around the creek. Click here to read the full text of this story.
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