The BUHS Science Department is determined to make our science better, not "good enough" this year.

In response to the need to get outside and away from our computers now more than ever, we will be learning Biology OUTSIDE as much as possible during the 2020-21 School Year.

BUHS Bio Teachers and Science Department Chair Michele Hood are working to put together the kind of science learning for both remote and hybrid students that gets them safely into the community to look at natural systems directly.

Students will identify sites that can be accessed safely, whether that be the school courtyard, their back yard, a farm field or a planting in the Harmony Parking Lot. They will then spend several weeks learning to think about them like life scientists. Students will research the plant and animal biodiversity of their site, record physical and biological parameters like light, temperature, moisture and sound. They will also identify as many organisms or types of organisms in their site that they can and will create a Field Guide to their site or other meaningful work or research connecting that site to similar ecosystems around the world!