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Rehoboth Elementary students explore Delaware’s water resources
Festival activities focus on diversity of estuary life
Students learned about the region’s Native American culture. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
May 14, 2019
Students learned about early cooking methods at John Dickinson Plantation.
DNREC conservation planner and public outreach coordinator Rick Mickowski presented “Where Does your Water Shed” with the enviroscape model to teach students about pollutants and sediment in water that affect water quality. From Mickowski, students are (clockwise) Madison Roseboro, Sam Kastor, Ava Collins, Reece Kuklish, Robert Mejia-Herrera, Allison Cruz-Delgado, Caiden McCullin, Lilly Blanchard, Ava Cox, Madison Anderson, Camilla Willis, Alyssa Allen and Veronika Musina learned how to prevent runoff.
Students (l-r) Linden Henderson, Jayden Carmean, Miley Dixon, Kendall Berry, Brandon Johannes, Dasha Mareeva, Jordan Harmon, Jeremiah Brewer and Alice Clendaniel learn about mosquito control efforts. Here, students observed the mosquito life cycle and learned about natural predators of mosquitos when they are in the egg, larvae, and pupa stage.
Rehoboth Elementary fourth-grade students dove into learning about Delaware’s water resources and the environment at the Make a Splash Water Festival April 16.
Students visited the St. Jones Reserve and John Dickinson Plantation in Dover for hands-on activities on water resources, historic beverages and food, underwater fossils, wetlands and mosquitoes, watersheds and water quality, and Native American demonstrations.
Rehoboth students joined nearly 800 students from fourth-graders across the state at the festival, sponsored annually by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
