Zoo teaching grade schoolers to be citizen scientists
By kingsnake.com · May 26, 2015 5:32 am
Missouri school children will be using stuffed animals and telemetry data to learn about box turtles.
From the KPLR News:
Monday evening more than 200 grade school students will track soft plush box turtles to better understand their ecosystem. ‘We’ll have some of those plush turtles that have those telemetry devices so the kids will take their parents out and track them which we’ll have hidden at the zoo,’ says Dean. They’ll be using radio telemetry technology to help the state reptile of Missouri.Read more here. Photo by kingsnake.com user jeffb.
