St. Peters:--President of the Board of the St. Maarten Zoo, Mr. Rob Heil, visited the St. Dominic Primary School for a presentation of two school projects on the Zoo.
Teacher Mariette’s class of fifth graders did a project on iguanas and Teacher Bibi’s class of fifth graders did a model of the Zoo. Both classes visited the Zoo before starting the projects.
The projects were assignments for the teachers who are in the retraining program for Foundation Based Education. The teachers were taught “Project Approach” and learned how to convert a topic into a complete project. They then had to apply in their own class what they learned in the retraining.
Teacher Mariette’s students made a model of an iguana and presented information about iguanas. They also made up an iguana dance.
Teacher Bibi’s class made a model of the entire zoo. They also produced a song to promote visitors to the Zoo.
Both the model of the iguana and the model of the zoo will be given to the Zoo by the students and soon will be on display in the Zoo.
Mr. Heil stated that he was very impressed with the quality of the projects and he was pleased that the schools are making use of the Zoo as an educational tool.
