Sixth-graders at Kendall Elementary in the Mount Baker School District have been studying life cycles and decomposition at a nature preserve near their school through the Connections program, a collaboration of outdoor education groups and the district.
Some kids have been learning outdoors for months in Whatcom County, but not in Seattle. Read more or listen.
Wild Whatcom is one of a number of area non-profits working with the Bellingham Public Schools on the Connections program.