Kootenay Orchards students do their part for mountain caribou

Students at Kootenay Orchards Elementary School have been learning more than just their abc’s lately.

In a recent project involving almost all the students at the school, they learned about the environment, endangered species, participatory democracy and fund-raising.

The students most directly involved were the Grade 4 and 5 students in Melonie Whyte’s split class and the Grade 2 and 3 students in Brian Mackie’s class. The challenge was to discover animal species that are facing extinction in the world, do research on them to learn as much as they could and then do something else to help to save them.

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