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Around Annapolis: 8th-graders experience nature at Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 10/23/09

For one full minute, 25 eighth-graders were completely silent out on Blackwalnut Creek last week .

Diane M. Rey - For The Capital
Claire Jaeger, manager of the Philip Merrill Environmental Center’s education program at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation headquarters in Bay Ridge, instructs a group of eighth-graders from Severn River Middle School in basic paddling techniques before the students launched their canoes on Blackwalnut Creek last week. The center sees a new group of students and teachers every day through mid-December.
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The tweens, whose ears are more tuned to cell phones and iPods, focused instead on the mingled sounds of bird calls and a light breeze rustling through the autumn treetops as their canoes bobbed side by side in a small cove.

After a lesson on marsh ecology, it was back to the shoreline for the group from Severn River Middle School for the second half of their day-long field trip to the Philip Merrill Environmental Center at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation headquarters in Bay Ridge.

Claire Jaeger, manager of the center's...

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