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It is 9:00 p.m. on a late August evening. School has just started for this small, K-6, rural, coastal school. The local science teacher, Ms. Heron, in collaboration with families and community organizations, has taken her students to the beach to watch for the potential loggerhead hatchlings as they make the dangerous journey fromtheir nests to the ocean. Three students, Taylor (11), her sister, Mia (9), and brother, Tristan (7), attend the local four-room school and are eager to see Ms. Heron after the summer vacation. The three children told Ms. Herron that during the summer they had noticed more and more turtle nests, cordoned off with orange tape and stakes, along the beach. During the first week of school each year, Ms. Heron tells the children in her science classes, combined grades 1–3 and 4–6, that they will be studying the loggerhead turtles. On this warm August evening, the children are excited to be able to relate what they observe on the beach to what they are studying in the classroom.
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Veal, W.R., Wallace, A. (2011). Science and Math for Loggerheads. In: Beyond the One Room School. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-287-0_6
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