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Living Lens Project is beginning its second iteration of "Beautiful Biomes," a collaborative project integrating art, language arts, and science. Today 9th grade students started out the day by hearing from Wildlife Biologist Mike Enright of Five Rivers Metro Parks about the
Woodman Fen, a 33-acre wetlands owned and operated by Five Rivers Metro Parks. Mike spoke to the students about what a fen is and how it came to be created back in 2003 after its conversion from a vegetable farm into a wetlands.
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| Wildlife Biologist Mike Enright of Five Rivers Metro Parks talks to the students about the Woodman Fen |
After hearing from Mike about what a "fen" is, students made the short hike over to Woodman Fen to experience it for the first time and get pictures of the plants and wildlife in the area. Students were specifically looking for interesting patterns that might help them in creating a mural in their art class modeled after the one that was created for the Living Lens collaboration with Newport Aquarium last year.
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| Students working on the mural that they created last year for the Living Lens Project |
Look for more "Great Things" happening with this project this year as the students dive into the project in the coming weeks and months! In the meantime, enjoy the pictures from their visit.
