Wetland Watcher Students Create and Present Wetland Animal Presentations!
As part of the Hurst Middle Wetland Watcher Service-Learning Project, students are trained how to hold and present a variety of wetland animals. Students research facts and create scripts for presentations during outreach events. OVer the past 11 years, students have presented to over 400,000 people across southeastern Louisiana! [caption id="attachment_248" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="7th grade students from Harry Hurst MIidle School in Destrehan, Louisiana take a break from presenting a corn snake and an alligator to 120 sixth grade students from a partner school! During the past 11 years, students have shared the information they have learned through the Wetland Watchers ...
Wetland Watchers Coordinator Barry Guillot Guest on New Orleans 690 Radio Talk Show
[caption id="attachment_253" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Harry Hurst teacher, Barry Guillot and Alabama Artist, Don Stewart, were recently interviewed as guests on the 690 am Kiss My Gumbo radio talk show hosted by Greta Perry."][/caption]READ THE ARTICLE AND LISTEN TO THE PODCAST BELOW! Harry Hurst Teacher Interviewed on New Orleans Radio Talk Show Harry Hurst teacher Mr. Barry Guillot was recently a guest on 690 am’s Kiss My Gumbo radio talk show hosted by Greta Perry. Guillot was invited on the show to discuss the nationally recognized Wetland Watchers Service-Learning Project that he created 11 years ago, as well as a new partnership with ...
George Lucas Education Foundation Edutopia Documentary Features Hurst Middle Wetland Watchers!
[caption id="attachment_233" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Hurst Middle Wetland Watchers Featured in George Lucas Education Foundation Documentary!"][/caption]Destrehan, La., Harry Hurst Middle students are highlighted in the George Lucas Education Foundation documentary, "Wetland Watchers: Kids Care For Their Environment". The Wetland Watchers Service-Learning Project along with the Founder/ Coordinator were featured as an innovative approach to education using project-based strategies through service-learning. Although the video can be viewed below, a comprehensive article entitled "Swamped: Louisiana Students Become Wetlands Custodians The Wetland Watchers program is part of a schoolwide emphasis on service learning" can be found on the Edutopia website at http://www.edutopia.org/swamped-louisiana-students-become-wetlands-custodians Wetland Watchers: Kids Care For ...
DON STEWART WETLAND ALLIGATOR DRAWING STEP BY STEP PROGRESS!
HOW DOES HE CREATE SUCH FANTASTIC COMPOSITE DRAWINGS? In return for the students' assistance, Dr. Stewart has been keeping the students up to date on the project, sending sketches by e-mail to show them how Ihe creates his art, step by step. This process will continue until the work is completed. Enjoy the sketches and notes at each stage below! [caption id="attachment_207" align="aligncenter" width="218" caption="Gator 1 This is a preliminary attempt at drawing an alligator for the NOLA Wetland Watchers project. Barry Guillot's middle school students asked me to draw the animal with a New Orleans and wetlands theme. Having never drawn ...
Alabama Artist Partners with the Wetland Watchers to Raise Coastal Land Loss Awareness!
CHECK OUT THE PROJECT PROGRESS IN THE ATTACHED POST! Don Stewart is a former physician who uses his complex artwork to entertain and educate. Dr. Stewart is working with art and science students at Hurst Middle School to create a new drawing of an alligator for their Wetland Watchers project. To see examples of his award winning composite drawings, be sure to visit dsart.com. You will be amazed and humored at the many exceptional works of art in his gallery! “I’m still a biologist at heart, and part of my training included work along the Gulf coast” said Dr. Stewart, “I am ...
ABC Children First: Protecting Our Planet Hosted by Diane Sawyer
[caption id="attachment_197" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Students from Hurst Middle School in Destrehan, La are filmed collecting critters along the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain in the LaBranche Wetlands during a Wetland Watchers Service-Learning Trip!"][/caption]Diane Sawyer hosts the ABC Children First Special Protecting Our Planet that features Destrehan, Louisiana's Harry Hurst Middle School Wetland Watchers Service-Learning Project in a nationally aired documentary. Globalvision media based in New York granted permission to post this segment!
Service-Learning Meets Service Drawing!
Service Learning Meets Service Drawing Birmingham artist Dr. Don Stewart has teamed up with service-learning guru Barry Guillot’s Wetland Watchers to help rebuild the Louisiana coastal landscape. Last April, the physician-turned-visual humorist was invited to speak with science and art students at the Hurst Middle School in Destrehan, LA. Stewart was also there to gather material for a new drawing, which will be used to publicize and raise money for the Wetland Watchers. Stewart was the guest of Barry Guillot, an award-winning middle school science teacher who is using the local wetlands as an outdoor laboratory to teach his students about the ...
Hurst Middle LaBranche Wetland Watchers Celebration 2009
[caption id="attachment_119" align="alignright" width="800" caption="Hurst 7th grader Gabby shows a student how to plant cypress tree seeds as part of the Louisiana State University Coastal Roots Project. Students visiting the Coastal Roots booth planted seeds to grow 400 cypress trees that will be planted in Wetland Watchers Park next school year."][/caption]
New Orleans Saints and Saintsations Spend Earth Day with Hurst Students at Wetland Watchers Park!
[caption id="attachment_129" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="NFL New Orleans Saints Players and Saintsations visited with students and toured the Wetland Watcher Nature Trail during the annual Wetlands Celebration. Back row (L-R) Saints players Glenn Pakulak, Robert Meacham, and Hurst teacher Barry Guillot, Middle Row(L-R): Saints players Skyler Green, Pierre Thomas, and rep Michael Lewis Front Row: Saintsation Cheerleaders – Including former Harry Hurst student Ashlyn Falgout."][/caption]
8th Grade Wetland Watcher Trips
[caption id="attachment_126" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="UNO-PIES educator, Heather Egger, reads a first-hand account of French explorers traveling through the LaBranche area 300 years ago, while the students close their eyes to imagine what the land looked like back then. Many were excited to learn that some of the palmettos they were sitting by were alive when these events occurred! "][/caption] Each student collected soil samples and recorded observations about the physical composition of the soil. Over a two day period, all of the 8th graders at Hurst Middle were given the opportunity to participate in activities at Wetland Watchers Park. As part ...
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