May 21, 2008 5:32 pm US/Eastern
Chesapeake Bay Teaches Students About Oysters
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Students are trying to re-establish habitat for native oysters.
WJZ
Sometimes the best lessons don't come from books.
As
Alex DeMetrick reports, Maryland is lucky to have a very good teacher in the Chesapeake Bay.
Students from three Howard County schools got their feet wet intellectually Wednesday.
They traveled into the bay from Rocky Point in Baltimore County to a rendezvous with a boat from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. They brought concrete reef balls the students built in class.
"We had to mix the concrete together, then we had to put it into a mold. It took a long time and was very hard work and labor," said Victoria Oaveck with West Friendship Elementary.
That labor is building a reef to re-establish habitat for native oysters.
The project connects a new generation to a bay in need of all the understanding and help it can get.
Last year students made 20 reef balls. This year that number increased to 60, with hopes to do more in the future.
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