Earth Day @ Kistler Elementary | 2016

May 6, 2016 | Community, Education | 0 comments

Earth Conservancy had the chance to talk about its work to mitigate acid mine drainage on Friday, May 6th, with hundreds of students at Dr. David W. Kistler Elementary School in Wilkes-Barre. Check out some of the excellent AMD-inspired poems they put together!

Magnetic poetry reads: "Yesterday/a little/sad river/survived/orange danger and/had a tear"

Magnetic poetry reads "acid mine drainage/seeps/into/oceans/and/harms/ecosystems"

Magnetic poetry reads: "acid mine drainage/pollution hurts animals and children r in danger/its sad and we need to fix"

Magnetic poetry reads: "strong thick reeds can slow/acid mine drainage and protect/nutrients and/the trees and flowers"

Magnetic poetry reads: "acid mine drainage/mines sparkle but smell/rusty silver made an acid/pollute a ecosystem pond/hurt frog and food chain and hurt living animal/sad/no deep blue water streams/after an toxic mining runoff"

Magnetic poetry reads: "acid mine drainage/it hurts animals and a pond's ecosystem/remember to clean the river and ground water"

Magnetic poetry reads: "acid mine drainage/is a pure orange/mucky murky water"