PHOTOS: Medford Students Learn In Nature on Fells Day

MEDFORD, MA - Three years ago, a small team of Medford educators and community partners, came together to create the Community Conservation Educational Partnership, (CCEP), in order to get faculty and students out of the classrooms and into the Fells on a regular basis. The Partnership includes: the Department of Conservation & Recreation, (DCR), Tufts University, the Friends of the Fells, Groundworks, the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), the United States Forest Service and the City of Medford.

This year, Fells Day was scheduled at the end of the year to celebrate this partnership and allow students to investigate all the Fells has to offer, a release said. On June 10 about 750 students, spent two hours, enjoying canoeing, geocaching, guided nature walks, trail beautification, scavenger hunts,and rock painting, a release said. Some of the students read poetry outside. Groups like the Stone Zoo, Harvard MCZ, and Grassroots Wildlife hosted tables at the Field of Dreams and showed students how to make maple syrup and how to handle live snakes, a release said.