4 . Becoming a Nature Lover through Citizen Science

Citizen Science is an education series featuring workshops on a variety of topics in a relaxed and inspiring environment. There is no monetary registration fee; instead, each instructor suggests items or services they will accept in exchange for class participation.

Our volunteer instructors prepare based on how many people sign up, so please only sign up if you will actually attend.

Date

Friday, May 4

Time

8: 30am—10: 30 am Class description

Interested in studying nature, feeling more connected to your surroundings, helping the natural environment, but not sure where to start? Join us on a PowerPoint tour through the instructor’s favorite citizen science platforms that apply to our region. Just through being observant on a daily walk, you can submit meaningful data to scientists who will use your data to take meaningful conservation steps! We’ll show you how! It’s easy!

Suggested items in exchange for this class

*Baked snacks

*Homemade preserved foods

*Houseplants

*Nature art (draw me a picture?)

About the instructor

Kelsey Frey is the manager of education and outreach (外展服务) for York County Parks, part-time environmental educator for Lancaster County Parks, and runs her own business, Creative Nature Works, in her spare time. Kelsey’s passionate about many natural history topics, including butterflies, and landscaping with native plants.

5 . Group Swim Lessons

We do not have swimming pools of our own. We teach swim lessons at home and community pools. If you have a pool, we will meet you there and provide you with great swim lessons!

Group swim lessons are lower-cost lessons than private swim lessons. We provide the child with the same great swim instructors and a chance to learn with their friends! Group swim lessons are great for a group of friends around the same age and level as each other. This is because they push each other to be better. If a child is afraid of the water but sees a friend eager for the swim lesson, they tend to take it a little easy and want to try new things.

Group swim lessons are only for kids that are comfortable enough in the water. Kids that are crying, pushing away, or running out of the pool need to have a one-on-one swim lesson.

Here’s How Group Swim Lessons Work

1. Call (888) 617-1234 or email your name, basic swimmer information, and what days and times work for you to info@ swim.com.

2. After we get your swimmer information, we will see which of our swim instructors' schedules fit with your swim lesson availability and then call you back to confirm your first swim lesson!

3. Your swim instructor will bring all the equipment needed in your swim lessons. They will come on the reoccurring days scheduled to get the swimmers to where they need to be.

Swim Lesson Pricing

$65 for one 30-minute one-on-one private swim lesson

$55 per 30-minute group swim lesson

7 . A recent Stanford study found that America's students are shockingly bad at telling fact from fiction in this digital age. It's apparent that something has to change in the nation's classrooms. That something, according to Professor Sam Wineburg, one of those Stanford researchers, is “practice.”

“How do they become prepared to make the choices about what to believe, what to forward, what to post to their friends，” Wineburg asked on NPR's All Things Considered, “when teachers give no practice to them？”

Patricia Hunt, an experienced teacher at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., is doing something she has never done before: helping to pilot a new, digital course called the checkology virtual classroom. It comes from the nonprofit The News Literacy Project.

Hunt's students, most of them seniors, work in threes or fours. They're presented with a series of stories that are rapidly and broadly spread via the Internet. Some are false information. Some are ads. And some are pure fact.

“We don't know which is which at this point，” laughs student Kahder Smith. “We actually have to sit down, take our time, and actually read them. And probably Google some stuff to see if it's real or not.”

A post claims that more than a dozen people died after receiving the flu vaccine (疫苗) in Italy and that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) is now telling people not to get a flu shot.

“I mean, I've heard many unconfirmed reports that the flu shot's bad for you，” student Autumn Cooper says. But instinct (直觉) tells her the story's wrong. “It just doesn't look like a reliable source. It looks like this is off Facebook and someone shared it.” Cooper labels the story “fiction”. And she's right.

Instead of teaching students the fundamentals(基本) of fact­checking, many schools simply ignore the problem, blocking social media sites on school computers.

“It's like teaching students to drive in the parking lot and then sending them out on the highway and saying ‘Good luck！’” says Audrey Church, president of the American Association of School Librarians.

When the new school year starts, a lot of Chinese students need     1     (take) the military training course as the first challenge.

This fall semester, the military training course will have new     2     (requirement). According to China Youth Daily, a new syllabus (教学大纲) for the military training course for senior high school students has been released by the Ministry of Education,     3     will be carried out nationwide on Aug. 1.

The course     4     (relate) to military knowledge will be divided into two parts—basic military knowledge and basic military skills. This is the first time the course     5     (adjust) to suit high school students. The course itself will also be more flexible. In     6     (add) to main course, students can choose other areas to focus on. For students who are     7     (particular) interested in military knowledge or a specific skill set, they will have the opportunity to get     8     (far) training.

The military training course will be anywhere from 7 to 14 days long, with a minimum of 56 class hours.     9     the end of the course, students will be given one of     10     following evaluations: excellent, good, pass or fail.