Watch พรพรสำฦต students Sebastian Sagramoso Haley โ15, Fareeza Islam โ14, Hugo Fausto Torres-Fetsco โ15, Sara DiMassimo โ14, and Saliha Moore โ14, put up drywall, spackle, paint, sand, and decorate an old barn, transforming it into a center of discovery at a local day-care center in this short video documentary by Torres-Fetsco.
The students, as part of biology professor Community-based Study of Environmental Issues course this semester, converted part of a barn behind the into a hands-on nature center designed to spark the curiosity of preschoolers.
โThe whole idea behind the course is that the students do projects in the community,โ Ingram said. โThe amount of work they put in was absolutely phenomenal โฆ they did a lot of research on New York state standards for what teachers would be looking for at different age groups, and they looked at other nature centers in the area. Thereโs sensory tables and stuffed animals. Thereโs a way of using what children love to help them understand science.โ