Garden City High School and Stewart Elementary took part in a program through the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery to incubate, hatch and raise over 20 Quail, ultimately to be released. The CEED’s project aimed to teach about human’s impact on local ecosystems and what can be done to help. It also hopes to bring back the native birds Northern Bobwhite quail as more than 1,000 quail will be released as part of this program across Long Island.
High School science teacher Tori Flaherty and Stewart librarian Dawn Marzullo, both signed up for the project independently but enjoyed collaborating on the project together. Students watched the quail hatch in real time on a YouTube livestream video which was an amazing experience for them.
“This program brought so much excitement to my classroom as well as the rest of the high school!” Flaherty said. “Our entire ecology unit was centered around the Northern Bobwhite quail and their important roles in our environment. It was incredible to see how engaged students became as the quail began to hatch. I am looking forward to raising quail again next year and getting even more students and staff and families involved next year.”
“Raising and releasing quails with Stewart School has been the most rewarding experience of my career,” Marzullo said. “I have never seen an entire school come together in excitement and learning as Stewart did this past spring.”
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