Fifty-plus years of moving education outdoors
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Tom Urbanski
Tree stumps and log benches took the place of classroom desks during Conservation Education Days at the Cloquet Forestry Center. Wrenshall fifth-graders sat comfortably and focused on a presentation about pollinators led by Gail Bong, northeast co-leader for the Minnesota Women's Woodland Network.
Area students descend upon Cloquet Forestry Center
Some of the first morning frosts of the season didn't put a chill on the enthusiasm of local fifth-graders participating in the Conservation Education Days at the University of Minnesota's Cloquet Forestry Center last week.
More than 500 students from eight Carlton County school districts spent a full day learning outside their usual classrooms at the educational event focused on natural science topics Sept. 28-29.
The annual event for fifth-graders has been held since 1968 in the same demonstration field area...
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