CCSD#2 students get their hands dirty learning about climate factors

The Teton Science Schools (TSS) brought their Summer Science School to Carbon County School District No.2 (CCSD#2) last week.

The five-day program was focused on weather and climate, and it took the children to several places in the Platte River Valley. Working with a host of local experts, teachers from Saratoga Elementary School, Storer Scholars from the University of Wyoming (UW), and TSS faculty-led studies that included:

• Local community dynamics

• Measuring weather events

• The concept of climate and how it affects human and natural communities

• Pine beetle effects, pika habitat, and g...