Four teachers trekking through Costa Rica this summer were gathering ideas to teach to their students at Center for Creative Arts.
A Center for Creative Arts teaching team travels to Costa Rica through a Fund for Teachers Grant. From left are biology/chemistry teacher Kelley Kuhn, world geography/energy systems teacher Ken Collins, Spanish teacher Micah Holloway and biology/physical world concepts teacher Jack Pickett.As school gets back in swing, world geography/energy systems teacher Ken Collins, biology/physical world concepts teacher Jack Pickett, biology/chemistry teacher Kelley Kuhn and Spanish teacher Micah Holloway are hatching big plans for the fall semester.
After experiencing firsthand the rain forest in Monteverde, the Arenal Volcano, a turtle refuge in Samara and museums in San Jose, the teachers’ top project is to begin creating a botanical garden on their school’s campus to complete by spring.
“We hope to do what Costa Ricans are doing on a smaller scale,” said Kuhn, referring to the garden. “We’d really like to start a small native plant botanical garden. We’d like to have a protected area and build it up slowly.”
Unfortunately, Kuhn said, CCA is presently surrounded by invasive species of plants, from privet to Mimosa to tree of heaven.