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News: Get Hip with Habitat at Bales as students work to save shoreline
posted: November 8, 2009

      Bales 6th graders and the Galveston Bay Foundation join once again giving back to the community, county and state by being junior scientist and environmental ambassadors helping to restore the precious shoreline of Galveston Bay.  

      Get Hip to Habitat is a school year long environmental science education project for 6th graders at Bales. The students are taking part in growing cord grass, learning about water salinity, water ph testing, weather, aquatic life cycles and shoreline erosion restoration. 
      “This is the best thing that has happen to classroom learning," students of Tierni Sager's 6th grade science classes said. "We get to work outside in the mud and water and not have to sit in a classroom all day but the best part is we are helping save our environment." 
      This is the third year Bales Intermediate has participated in the Galveston Bay Foundation project.