The local landscape became a living textbook for A.I. du Pont High School science teacher Vic Leonard’s students earlier this month.
With Sandy Schenk of the Delaware Geological Survey as the field trip guide, students road the Wilmington and Western Railroad around the Delaware Piedmont, gathered in an ancient cave at Brandywine Springs Park to examine 450-million-year-old volcanic formations, and stopped to eat their bag lunches at the Mt. Cuba Observatory.
“The Nov. 12th trip was the second time we've tried this,” Leonard said, and it was “really neat.”
So neat, in fact, that the Delaware Dept. of Education tagged along with video equipment to film the event as a "virtual" field trip for Delaware classrooms as part of the state curriculum.
