In sixth grade, students work along the Rio Grande, in a riparian forest,
known locally by its Spanish name "bosque." Mostly brought on by human
activity, the Rio Grande bosque is undergoing tremendous transformation.
Students study this change. In particular, they assist with the Bosque
Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP), a research project for long-term
environmental monitoring of the bosque ecosystem. BEMP is sponsored by the
University of New Mexico, and funded by the National Science Foundation, so
students participate as real scientists doing real scientific research!
Throughout our science program, students are given the time and opportunity
to experience their local landscape in ways that allow them to build
aesthetic, cultural, and ecological connections to it.
MISSION for 6th Grade Science:
In the end we will conserve only what we love;
We will love only what we understand;
And we will understand only what we have been taught.
- Baba Dioum
