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Woodworking on the Prairie

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Woodworking students from several classes worked with Westar's Green Team to construct the prairie shelter that our Free State Engineering students designed.  Through this collaboration with Green Team engineers and project managers, students gained valuable, real world, hands-on skills as they created an outdoor classroom using repurposed materials.  

Woodworking students designed and built bluebird houses for the prairie during a cross-curricular project-based lesson.

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Another team of woodworking students constructed native pollinator boxes specifically designed to allow for examination of native pollinator larvae.  A variety of questions regarding nesting preferences of native pollinators can be explored with these relatively simple boxes.

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Free State Prairie is open to the public every day between dawn and dusk. The prairie is located on the NW corner of the property behind the football stadium.  Enter through the main athletics entrance and follow the wide sidewalk around behind the stadium.  At the end of the sidewalk, head across the lawn to the northwest toward the shelter and shed.

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Free State Prairie

Lawrence Free State High School

4700 Overland Dr.

Lawrence,  KS  66049

freestateprairie@gmail.com 

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