{"id":25902,"date":"2024-01-05T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25902"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:47:29","slug":"carbon-environmental-center-installs-science-themed-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25902","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Environmental Center Installs Science-Themed Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25903\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CarbonEECenter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25903\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25903\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CarbonEECenter-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CarbonEECenter-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/CarbonEECenter.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosalie Clark of Nesquehoning sits reading under CCEEC&#8217;s science-themed tree. Clark suggested adding an ornament for her namesake, Rosalie Edge. Edge founded the world&#8217;s first sanctuary for birds of prey in the 1930s. Photo provided by Carbon County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>This holiday season, the Carbon County Environmental Education Center (operated by full-time staff from the Carbon County Conservation District) invited children of all ages to help decorate a science-themed Christmas tree with ornaments depicting famous scientists, both past and present.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;It was just an idea, and our staff sort of ran with it,&#8221; said Susan Gallagher, the center&#8217;s Chief Naturalist. &#8220;We were talking about how kids should know the stories of all the people who&#8217;ve changed the world, and the next thing I knew, our part-time staff were making ornaments out of Petri dishes.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Each ornament featured a picture of a famous&#8211;or not so famous&#8211;scientist on one side, with their contribution to scientific discovery written on the other.<\/p>\r\n<p>The display included a reading area with age-appropriate books about scientists from all over the world and a sign-in sheet where children added their suggestions for more ornaments.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday season, the Carbon County Environmental Education Center (operated by full-time staff from the Carbon County Conservation District) invited children of all ages to help decorate a science-themed Christmas tree with ornaments depicting famous scientists, both past and present. &#8220;It was just an idea, and our staff sort of ran with it,&#8221; said Susan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}