Through a range of exciting hands-on activities, our Primary School science specialists harness young girls’ natural curiosity about their world in the interest of science. One current project has cast the girls in the role of “amateur ornithologists,” as they observe and count the birds that visit the feeders right outside their classroom window.
		In addition to identifying different species by their appearance and habits, the students are learning how to record data for later analysis and share it with other classes. They are also submitting their results to Project FeederWatch, a national bird-tracking effort run by the Cornell University Ornithology Lab. Through this and other projects, our girls don’t simply learn the scientific process—they live it.