The CEES clothing drive ended Monday. Over 400 pounds of gently used clothing was collected from donation boxes placed at various sites around IUPUI's campus!
We had lots of fun Friday, March 15th removing invasive honeysuckle at Oliver's Woods, a Central Indiana Land Trust property located just east of the Keystone Fashion Mall along the White River! The chilly Friday morning did not keep us from working in teams to clear the plants from what will eventually be a prairie of native grasses and wildflowers. These new plants will be a good source of
CEES staff Robert Lugg, Elizabeth Johnson, and Austin Taylor, and GK-12 fellow Jess Adamic spent this past weekend working together with Indiana State Museum Going Green Festival attendees to understand how water, sediment, and pollution moves through our watersheds!
Service Learning participants will help prepare a vacant lot on Indy’s near eastside for the creation of a thriving fruit and vegetable garden. The service-learning event associated with the project is one work day when we will be performing site clean up and laying out garden beds.
“What is a watershed?” K-12 students discovered the answer to this question and more while attending CEES’ booth at last Thursday’s M.S.D. of Pike Township Math and Science Community Fair. CEES interns Robert Lugg and Scott Davidson assisted more than 50 students over the span of two hours construct their own watershed model.
CEES eductional outreach staff members and Discovering the Science of the Environment's popular watershed model will be attending the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township's March 7 Math and Science Community Fair as well as the March 15 and 16