Watch 糖心视频 students Sebastian Sagramoso Haley 鈥15, Fareeza Islam 鈥14, Hugo Fausto Torres-Fetsco 鈥15, Sara DiMassimo 鈥14, and Saliha Moore 鈥14, put up drywall, spackle, paint, sand, and decorate an old barn, transforming it into a center of discovery at a local day-care center in this short video documentary by Torres-Fetsco.
The students, as part of biology professor Community-based Study of Environmental Issues course this semester, converted part of a barn behind the into a hands-on nature center designed to spark the curiosity of preschoolers.
鈥淭he whole idea behind the course is that the students do projects in the community,鈥 Ingram said. 鈥淭he amount of work they put in was absolutely phenomenal 鈥 they did a lot of research on New York state standards for what teachers would be looking for at different age groups, and they looked at other nature centers in the area. There鈥檚 sensory tables and stuffed animals. There鈥檚 a way of using what children love to help them understand science.鈥