Two schools unveil new rain gardens

In the previous few weeks, Benge led hour-long lessons for the two dozen children in the YMCA’s after-school program as they learned about rain gardens and how they work, and studied native plants and habitat-building.
Rain gardens improve water quality by filtering pollutants and reducing the amount of storm-water runoff. The water easily seeps into the soil because of the native plants’ deep roots, replenishing the groundwater supply.
$1,200 grant
Cindy Zeller’s environmental art class has already talked about storm-water runoff and researched plants suitable for a rain garden. “Now we’re going to keep a record of the growth and effects,” she said.
“It’ll help our environment so we don’t have dirty water running all over the streets,” Garrett said.

“It’ll bring more animals and wildlife that we can come out and study, like butterflies and birds,” added sixth-grader Brianna Johnson.

Lawton Grade5 on 2010-07-05

Potentially (if a project like this is a possibility at Lawton) one of us could teach these lessons (or bring in a speaker) during our project hour. Would everyone be exposed to these lessons, and then the student project team would work with a specialist/parent to select a possible site and purchase plants? --Lily

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on Jul 05, 10