Sachem North’s Environmental Science and Envirothon students have been busy over the last month. Thanks to teacher Monica Marlowe, students have been exposed to educational field trips, intellectual guest speakers and more.
Here’s a look at some educational happenings with the class:
Purchased Two Elkay Refillable Water Bottle and Drinking Fountains
- Approximately $2,000, in collaboration with Student Government and Senior Class
- Purchased with intensive fundraising efforts
- Efforts to encourage reusable water bottles to reduce plastic trash
Guest speaker, Dr. Craig O’Connell
- A world-renowned shark biologist, as seen on Shark Week
- Awarded five students the opportunity to work alongside him to sample for sharks off Long Island this summer
Brookhaven National Lab’s Open Space Stewardship Conference
- Posters presented on the Sunken Meadow Creek tidal restoration and “Day in the Life of the Nissequogue River”
- Our data has been used by the DEC and NY State Parks to obtain federal funds for salt marsh planting; 10,000 plants will take root on June 27 from Noon-4 p.m. with the help of a team of students from Sachem North
Target Field Trip Grant
- Robert Moses and Captree State Parks to discover the ecology of the Great South Bay and Fire Island
Commerdinger County Park Volunteer Cleanup
- Met with park manager to learn natural history before cleanup
Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Network Volunteers
- Students help count and tag spawning horseshoe crabs alongside professional scientists
