More than 150 secondgraders at Mill Street School in Orland, CA,
turned a recent field trip to Sacramento National Wildlife
Refuge and followup classroom activities into works of art. The
trip was part of a program that teaches wideeyed students about
waterfowl, wetlands and migration, with the end result being the
children submitting drawings to the Junior Duck Stamp
Conservation and Design contest. They got to see a bald eagle
out there, said Diane Forrester, one of six teachers involved in
the handson field trip that was funded through a local nonprofit
organization, the BarcelouxTibessart Foundation. I think it is
the most wonderful experience. The excursion included an
activity in the refuge discovery room, a nature walk, a bus trip
on the refugeand a chance for the children to track the
migration of birds from as far away as Russia. Garrett Spaan, a
visitor services assistant at the refuge, said one of the tools
he and colleague Natalie Garver use is a migration game in which
the students travel from pl