Pretty heady stuff for elementary school children. The work Berger does extends beyond that. She helped develop an outdoor laboratory for monitoring water, soil and nature at Chester Elementary. The same information monitored by Berger and the classes and children at Chester was relayed and studied by students at Cornell University in New York via a Web site she helped establish. She did a lot of the research.
Every school has a patch of ground.
It draws birds, seeds, insects. Then it is up to the teachers to use. But it is neat when the kids get out and they are making a difference. You make a difference when you talk to an estimated 1,600 students in a year. You make a difference when you give 27 Enviroscape demonstrations and 20 soil programs on trees, composting and stream monitoring to classes.