Chattahoochee Elementary School in Cumming will begin “Bear University” field trips in the 2016-17 school year to teach third-grade students environmental lessons about the black bear.
The scholarship program, in its first year, of Forsyth County Parks & Recreation will take children to the Sawnee Mountain Preserve north of Cumming.
Chattahoochee School’s bear scholarship was one of nine ideas submitted. It was accepted as “a well-written application that clearly demonstrated how their student population would benefit from the scholarship and how they could help promote the program to other schools,” said Joseph Daugherty, program supervisor at Sawnee Mountain.
The program, designed by members of the Forsyth County Schools and Forsyth Parks, will introduce students to a simulated bear den and wildlife biologist field techniques. The goal is for all third graders in Forsyth to attend Bear University.
Sawnee Mountain is a Forsyth Parks property with 963 acres of green space, trails and an interactive visitors center at 4075 Spot Road, Cumming. Its website is: http://www.sawneemountain.org/
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