Students in a third grade class at Northside Elementary School in Levittown got a chance to put their research skills to the test at the end of last month.
The students went to the Outdoor Learning Center at the Levittown Memorial Education Center to learn more about animal behaviors and to develop their research skills.
The program was facilitated by Jessica Mills, a teacher at the Outdoor Learning Center. Mills led the students through a series of tests and experiments to help them determine whether animals do better in groups or individually when getting and keeping watch over their food.
During their time at the Outdoor Learning Center, the third graders were told to collect plastic toy foods with number printed on them from a group of bins. Students were divided into groups as either individual animals or groups of animals. The number of the toys corresponded to how long an animal in the wild would survive with that food.
After collecting their foods, the students went inside and created bar graphs with the information they gather on them, then they went back outdoors. Some of the students were told to protect the foods by standing by the bins, while the others went in search of more food. The students were then able to compare the results from the first activity to the second and discussed the differences between each.
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