Students given science lesson by adopting park - 2004-02-01
Twenty eighth-grade students from Penns Grove Middle School braved the winter cold last week to start on a new project: Looking after the classes' adopted park on Barber Avenue.
Ginny Lewis, eighth grade science teacher at the school, said it officially adopted the park to give students the opportunity to help the community and learn about science.
"We wanted to do something environmental for the science curriculum," Lewis said, "(and) I wanted to ... show them community responsibility."
Early in the cold morning, student Jamee Sayers, 13, of Carneys Point, picked up refuse in the park using a trash poker.
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