Photos by Leslie Bray Brewer | The Stokes News
At the annual Environmental Awareness Days at Hanging Rock April 16-18, a park ranger taught local fifth graders how weathering has affected the Hanging Rock area from 800 million years ago until now. Here she demonstrates, by loading down a Pinnacle Elementary student with bags of rock-making materials, how the different layers of earth were pressed down to form various types of rocks, such as how sandstone eventually becomes quartzite.
Photos by Leslie Bray Brewer | The Stokes News
At the Hanging Rock bathhouse shelter, a local beekeeper illustrates his lesson on honeybees with a contained beehive that these Pinnacle Elementary School students from Tiffany Muniz’ class could see up close. He operated one of seven stations at the Stokes County Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual Environmental Awareness Days which are held in mid-April for every fifth grader in Stokes County Schools. This event has been ongoing for approximately 30 years.
Environmental Awareness Days
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