JUNE 16. 2017--Earth Day in June! On Friday, June 9, OR&R staff participated in a Brooklyn public school's "Earth Day in June" science celebration.

Throughout the day, students in Grades 1 through 5 presented sustainability projects they have been working on all year long. First graders harvested vegetables from their farm and prepared salads from the crop for the entire school community, second graders demonstrated an irrigation system they constructed, third graders taught the school community about endangered animals and their amazing adaptations, and fifth graders presented stop motion videos they had produced on global climate change issues. Keeping pollution out of the nearby waterways has been a focus of the school's fourth grade science and social studies curricula. During the celebration, the fourth graders showed off their designs for cleaning up and restoring the Gowanus Canal Superfund Site - a neighboring waterway where NOAA is assessing natural resource injuries. It was a day filled with learning, sharing, and celebrating. As their principal said at the end of the exciting day, "seeing how much our students know about caring for each other and planet earth gives hope for the future."

For further information, contact Reyhan.Mehran@noaa.gov.

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