The Mott Foundation Talks about GM GREENMay 18, 2012 - Picking through a pan of cold, wet river debris in search of leeches, water fleas and threadworms might not excite every student. But for Don Hammond’s environmental science class at Beecher High School, near Flint, Michigan, the chance to be directly involved in a water quality monitoring experience that helps to improve the condition of their community’s watershed is an event to look forward to. Each April for the past three years, Hammond’s junior and senior high school students have returned to a site on Brent Run, a medium-size creek that feeds into the Flint River, to conduct water quality tests as part of the Flint River GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) program. “The results of every test the students run today will go into a countywide data base for use by the Genesee County Drain Commission, Project GREEN and the Flint River Watershed Coalition (FRWC),” said Hammond, one of 57 teachers in Michigan’s Genesee, Lapeer and Oakland counties who take part in the event. Read more and watch a video from the day, visit the Mott website. |
