WHF at the Lincoln Sixth Grade Outdoor Education Program
During the last week of March, the Wildlife Heritage Foundation (WHF) participated in the Outdoor Learning Environment program (OLE) for all Lincoln middle schoolers. WHF board member Mark Fowler, a retired Lincoln High School science teacher, helps run the program and brought WHF into the program for the first time this year. During this week sixth graders were exposed to many educational topics including oak woodlands, vernal pools, pond ecology, and Native American history. Students participated in educational discussions and activities at eight different stations at each of the program’s two sites: the Ole Property and the Lincoln High School Farm. California wildflowers was one of the eight stations at the beautiful Ole property; an oak woodland and grassland open space preserve in Lincoln. At the wildflower station, our biologists taught students about native and non-native California wildflowers. Topics discussed included pollination, seed dispersal, wildflower families, and Native American uses of plants and wildflowers. Students enjoyed a hands-on wildflower activity and scavenger hunt and we have the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our educators and students in action as well as the flowers we saw in bloom at the property. The students were so eager to learn and participate. We had a great time and can’t wait to do it again!