The Buzz on Beekeeping and Pollinators!

Today we learned all about Pollinators from a real beekeeper - our own Environmental Educator Sam! She showed us the ropes of beekeeping, introduced us to various pollinators (including hummingbirds, moths, bees, bats and more) and even had the Urban Naturalists dissect flowers to learn all about the parts! What a fun day!

Hmmm...what is this mystery object?

Trying out all the gear!

Sam shows us a sample beekeeper hive while Jaida models the outfit!

Elly draws a flower and its parts

Our crazy ladies!

Hector drew an EXCELLENT representation of all the
kids of pollinators! 

Jaida is a fantastic artist! 

Getting the Dirty Details on Soil

Today, we dug up the scoop on soil! We learned about how different sediments tell us different things about the history of the land.

To start, we checked out our mystery object using a microscope!

We learned a bit about cicadas as they have been in the news very recently. Keep an eye out for these guys this summer!

Here, the boys team builds a rock to tell the history
of the land

One Urban Naturalists thoughts on the class!

Some Urban Naturalists do some soil tests in the garden soil! 

Using our soil sifter, we discovered that our garden has quite a variety of particle sizes! 

One of our students even found a 4 leaf clover!

Learning About the Trees

We put our new Tree ID skills to the test and ventured into Blackstone Park in Providence RI. We identified quite a few tree and bird species while out in the woods!

Here, Jaida and Emeril try to identify an Oak Tree

Lucy learns the trick to identifying a White Pine 

Leave it to Katherine to keep things crazy!