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paper with stencils that Baines designed. The youngsters bring specimens in for the class insect cage and collect spider webs to display. An aquarium filled with marine life donated by the Rappahannock Lions Club gives them the opportunity for a first hand look at aquatic life.
All of her ideas, plans and projects focus on one goal: making science something that seventh graders can relate to with their everyday lives rather than just another academic subject.
“We talk about what’s the best thing to do with old tennis shoes, basketballs and plastic containers. Do you recycle or bury them or burn them? I tell the kids that 500 years from now, those plastic milk containers will still be there if they’re buried. If you burn them, you create air pollution by releasing poisonous gas into the atmosphere. If you filter the air through water, you’ve got water pollution.”
For many of the problems she presents for discussion, there are no easy solutions but she starts her youngsters thinking. When they leave her class, they go with the knowledge that the plastic milk container is made from petroleum products, a nonrenewable resource. They know there’s no safe way to dispose of the non
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