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  • Beacon School
  • New York, NY
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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The waters around our school and city have been abused, mistreated, maligned...and really cleaned up! Our local environment has rebounded from centuries of dumping, dredging, harvesting... and more dumping. It has withstood all we have thrown at it, with a little help, well, from us. A few simple tools, in the classroom, laboratory , and field, can help students appreciate the level of degradation that a system can undergo, as well come to appreciate as some of the ways a system may rebound. Whether on its own or with a little help from a friends, vital yet damaged complex systems like estuaries and harbors can work it out sometimes. Help our citizen students appreciate the vitality of the natural systems around them, in the urban landscape. The tides, migrations and systems that surround them can be made apparent and quantifiable with some skills and insight. Tools for determining water quality can go a long way to ensuring an informed citizenry and give students a life long appreciation for complex systems. Hydrometers and pH pens reveal local changes in salinity and acidity and help determine water quality; plankton nets help us collect microscopic sample of life from the local waterways.

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The waters around our school and city have been abused, mistreated, maligned...and really cleaned up! Our local environment has rebounded from centuries of dumping, dredging, harvesting... and more dumping. It has withstood all we have thrown at it, with a little help, well, from us. A few simple tools, in the classroom, laboratory , and field, can help students appreciate the level of degradation that a system can undergo, as well come to appreciate as some of the ways a system may rebound. Whether on its own or with a little help from a friends, vital yet damaged complex systems like estuaries and harbors can work it out sometimes. Help our citizen students appreciate the vitality of the natural systems around them, in the urban landscape. The tides, migrations and systems that surround them can be made apparent and quantifiable with some skills and insight. Tools for determining water quality can go a long way to ensuring an informed citizenry and give students a life long appreciation for complex systems. Hydrometers and pH pens reveal local changes in salinity and acidity and help determine water quality; plankton nets help us collect microscopic sample of life from the local waterways.

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