Kara Leimberger and Aaron Sandel are co-teaching 6th graders about primates in a 2-week course at Chewning Middle School. It has been fun and exhausting so far. Each student has a primate that they are studying. Today we taught them about primate diets. After learning the terms folivore and frugivore, they made salads based on the diet of their primate. (We couldn't get our hands on insects, so we used gummy worms....).Teaching this course is part of an independent study Kara is doing on Primate Conservation Education. She is developing lesson plans that engage students of various ages and get them interested and excited about primates and conservation.
Here Kara helps the students as they select the different food items their primates eat. We had figs, celery, leafy greens, nectar, edible flowers, and more! Conservation is...healthy eating!
If you are a student or teacher and would like a guest lecture or material on primates, please email us. Also, if you are interested in helping out, let us know. You can email us at nc.roots.shoots@gmail.com.
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