Sierra Club Inner City Outing Visits the NC Museum of Life and Science in Durham

01/20/2007

On Saturday, January 20th, students from CIS Wake's Heritage Park After-School Learning Center enjoyed a busy day at the NC Museum of Life and Science in Durham.

Highlights included an interactive talk about snakes; viewing and learning about NC wildlife, from catfish and muskrats to black bears and red wolves; watching red ruffed lemurs jumping around and hanging upside down; catching tropical butterflies in the Magic Wings Butterfly House; exploring the Insectarium; playing drums in the outdoor playground; and checking out farm animals up close.

CIS Wake is grateful to the Sierra Club and its volunteers for making the Inner City Outings program available to our students. Each month the students learn more about the environment on a unique field trip to venues across the Triangle. These 'hands-on' outings help our students develop their scientific curiosity while having fun. In fact, the trips are so much fun the students do not even know they are learning!

 In the photo: Malik, Buddy, and Desaray enjoy the surroundings of the Magic Wing's Butterfly House.