Growing ideas: Ohlone students complete environmental science project - The Pajaronian | Watsonville, CA

Growing ideas: Ohlone students complete environmental science project - The Pajaronian | Watsonville, CA

When a group of third-grade students at Ohlone Elementary School planted two trees on their campus earlier this year, it was the culmination of an environmental science project that began when they found a small colony of bats living under the eaves of one of the buildings on campus. Science teacher Jennifer Higgins Kuechle said that other lessons she had in mind for the project shifted after that discovery.  “When the kids started finding the b…