Learning's a Shore Thing ; As Part of a Beach Monitoring Program, Students in Scarborough Ditch Their 'Boring Textbooks' and Experience Science in the Field
Portland Press Herald › March 25, 2011
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Snow flurries and unrelenting winds made measuring the breadth and slope of the sand at Scarborough Beach more than a little uncomfortable on Thursday morning.
Teams of seventh-graders from Scarborough Middle School worked with sticks, strings and frozen fingers to chart the shoreline on their monthly field trip for the Southern Maine Beach Profile Monitoring Project.See the full content of this document
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Learning's a Shore Thing ; As Part of a Beach Monitoring Program, Students in Scarborough Ditch Their 'Boring Textbooks' and Experience Science in the Field
The frigid temperatures were nothing compared to the waist-deep snow that challenged the students when they visited the beach in January.
"That was crazy," Lydia Libby recalled dur...See the full content of this document
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