Springfield (Illinois)—Before Wednesday, Maia Ojugbele knew that coal was what Santa would bring her if she didn’t behave — but that was pretty much the extent of her knowledge of rocks, she said.
By noon Wednesday, the 10-year-old Sandburg Elementary School fourth-grader could rattle off the names of a handful of types of rocks and minerals. And exactly how fertilizer can contaminate groundwater. And very specific ways to recycle at school.
Ojugbele was one of nearly 900 students who spent their morning at the Illinois State Fairgrounds for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Earth Stewardship Day.
The annual event is designed to provide Sangamon County fourth-graders with a “good learning field trip” for the end of the school year, IEPA spokeswoman Maggie Carson said.
Students moved among a handful of stations for 20- to 50-minute presentations from a range of agencies and organizations, most with interactive activities to teach the students about aspects of recycling, natural resource preservation, types of animals and lessons about waterways, wetlands and other ecosystems.
Ojugbele’s teacher, Linda Daugherty, said Wednesday’s field trip is her favorite of the year because of how it ties in hands-on experience with her lessons in the classroom.
“I describe it as an outdoor classroom,” she said. “It’s great for kids who don’t always get opportunities to see these things otherwise.”
Read more at The State-Journal-Register. By Molly Beck.
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I want government, especially the EPA, to stay off my farm, out of my home and away from my children, polluting their minds, and protect America and our borders as our Constitution promotes! Terry Honnold, Davenport, IA thbb@mchsi.com 563-323-1997.
It might be better if the EPA prefaced their little indoctrinations with "this is agenda 21 and how it works kids".
How long are people going to their kids in the government indoc centers? This is the heart of the problem in our nation. Our future has been fed this garbage for over 30 years and we wonder why we are having problems with our nation. Get your kids out of public schools and take control of their future and the future of our nation.
These are whole generations worth of indoctrination into the coming global world generation.
Adolph Hitler would be proud of the head kenyan in charge and the democrap regime!!! The democraps have been brainwashing our kids for years, look at the communist "professors" that have infiltrated our universities! The number of educated idiots is amazing!! If the kenyan born, muslim, marxist gets back in power, we will have the last and final war! All of we true patriotic Americans will most likely die after we kill dozens of our enemies(democraps) which are no longer considered Americans!!!
UN Agenda 21 at its best. Leave the kids alone you communist bastards. Ron Paul will get rid of this BS operation. We need to go back to the Constitution,asap.
If people don't wake up Agenda 21 will be in place and we will be unable to do anything about it.
why doesn't the House and Senate get on the ball and get this Agenda 21 and the Unted National out of our lives. The executive power should not be able to become any kind of law unless the Congress has voted upon it. This is the way our government works not Obama's way. We have a constitution that we follow and not Obama's way. Let's take this to the Supreme Court and maybe they can get rid of Obama for the people of this country once and for all.