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Students explaining information about Elephants in Mrs. Carpenter’s eighth grade science class.

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer

When people think of science they usually think of explosions and equations, however, students in Mrs. Carpenter’s eighth grade science classes will now think of elephants. For the last two weeks of school Mrs. Carpenter has given her class a special project to work on where they learn about elephants and how scarce they are becoming.

“I love elephants. I’m hoping that students will be able to understand that what they do affects the world around them,” Mrs. Carpenter explained when she was asked why she gave her class this project.

Students have been divided into six groups and each group is given two different topics. There are topics from the sounds they make, to the number of elephants that are usually found in each heard. “It’s a fun project, and we learn lots of different things,” Brandy Murray, a student in Mrs. Carpenter’s class, explained.

Students not only get to learn about elephants and their lifestyle, but they are also helping save African land. African Wildlife Foundation Conservation has said that they will donate three acres of African land to an elephant reservation for every class that participates in this project. Even though students believe that they are merely just completing another one of those ‘end of year projects,’ they are also helping the world and making it possible for elephants to live safely in Africa.