Davion Bryant, 8, gets a big laugh as her classmate Kayla Akers, 8, tries out a pair of bull horns Wednesday. (Gary Landers photo) | ZOOM |

        FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP — Second- through fourth-graders at Fairfield North Elementary School used binoculars to hunt for 15 birds, went fishing for white bass, and tried to imagine what it would be like to be an animal struggling to untangle itself from a plastic ring from a six-pack of pop.

        It was all part of the Columbus Center of Science and Industry outreach program, COSI on Wheels.

        The program Wednesday was put together in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as a way to show students what biologists do in the field.

        Four different biomes — grasslands, forest, ponds and wetlands — were set up in the school's multipurpose room. Parent volunteers were stationed at each biome to help students with the activities set up at each. Groups of students rotated among the stations during their classes' allotted time.

        “This program lines up with our curriculum and with the fourth grade proficiency test,” said Diane Stacy, the school's assistant principal. “You learn by doing. Kids remember the things they do, and that's what this is — learning by discovery.”
       

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