In combined celebration of Earth Day and Arbor Day PR-B students from grades K-6 spent time with HDT staffers learning about plants and sprouts.

First graders attentively listening to information about how plants grow and what sprouts are.

5 different sprouts to taste. Mmmm.

Although some students were a bit apprehensive about sprouts, most liked them.

Mung bean sprouts were a crowd favorite.

Fill in the blank worksheets about growing plants and take-home information about sprouts.

Sixth grade students with their egg carton planters. Mother's Day gifts?

Each group learned about five different sprouts (mung, alfalfa, rye, clover, quinoa). Students were able to see and touch the seeds, see pictures of each full-grown plant and taste each different kind of sprout. Each student also helped us fill out a worksheet with the information they had learned about sprouts. 

Following the sprout activity, students filled egg carton sections with soil and planted flower seeds.  

Barb and Quinn popped over to Crosslake Community School for activities with k-2 students.

Kindegarteners showing off their cob handprints.

With the first/second graders we talked about how plants grow, explained about and tasted sprouts, and made cob "pinch-pots" for later use.

Excitedly getting in the "mud".

Staples ALC came by Campus this Spring. 

Quinn explains the sensor system in our buidlings.

Cob sculpting after the tour.

Before returning to their regular school work in Staples, we did an activity about pollution and how it spreads underground. A great way to wrap up their time here.