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MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — An increasingly popular biology
course at a North Carolina nature center is providing a
classroom-style learning experience for home school students.

The unique science lab is becoming in high-demand for students.

Using clay, a group of homeschoolers gets a lesson in science.
They mold the stages of a bullfrog's lifecycle and learn a
biology in the process.

“I didn't know a lot about homeschooling before this job. I
just thought they stayed at home and learned and never really
got out. And I think that's the perception of it,” said
Anne-Marie Stevenson with the Latta Plantation Nature Center.

Stevenson teaches the homeschool biology course for
third-graders through fifth-graders at Latta Nature Center.
High demand for the class pushed the center to open a second
course so students could get the lab experience that Stevenson
said is vital.

“They're learning how to cooperate and divide tasks up and work
together,” said Stevenson.

Homeschool student Sudie St. Yves took part in the project a
couple of years ago.

“We had to feed [the tadpole] lettuce and flightless fruit
flies and pretty much we're going to have to do the same
thing,” said St. Yves.

Stevenson hopes the classroom-style environment will help the
homeschool students start to think like scientists

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Homeschool students learn science in unique fashion