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Jakob Hooper collects some sap from the boiler pit while Gavin Mitchell (right) looks on. Mitchell had been stirring the sap.
Bethel Citizen photo by Samuel Wheeler
BETHEL Telstar students wrapped up their winter ecology unit this week, which culminated with them boiling sap behind the school’s greenhouse on Tuesday.
Throughout the duration of the unit, Local Ecology teacher Elke Blauss focused on teaching students about snow, avalanches and how to track in the snow, but then one student asked her if the unit would cover anything on tapping trees.
“I was like sure, let’s do that,” Blauss said. “We just kind of ran with it.”