All Saints Students Visit Lake Catholic For Ecology Lesson
Students taught students about bird migration in Lake Catholic's vivarium
The students of All Saints of St. John Vianney had never seen anything like Lake Catholic High School's vivarium. The room is one part biology laboratory, one part botanical garden and one part museum with a little bit of shop class sprinkled in. The vivarium houses displays on invasive species -- including buckthorn trees picked from the school's grounds -- tropical plants, a pond, a small-scale model that depicts the dangers of erosion, a composter and the beginnings of a water-filtration lab. The fifth graders visited it Friday to learn more about birds' habits, including feeding and migration, which they learned from Lake Catholic seniors. While they enjoyed the lesson, what impressed many of them the most was the vivarium itself. "…
