Archived Outdoors
Lichen, ozone and trees, oh my!
Waynesville Middle School seventh graders got to explore the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Purchase Knob Education Center last week.
Hands-on activities included identifying lichen, graphing data on ground-level ozone at Purchase Knob, measuring trees and hiking to Ferguson Cabin to learn about life in the 1800s. Here, Kennan Huskison smiles as he and classmates Logan Parks and Luke Mina measure the diameter of a tree.
The field trip was funded through Friends of the Smokies’ Parks as Classrooms program, which designs field trips specific to grades kindergarten through eighth grade for counties in North Carolina and Tennessee bordering the park.
