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Creating a new curriculum for middle school and get out there and collect data.” Students had the opportuniWith teacher Natasha Nurse ty to research a variety of plant leading the charge, Long Beach life. In the greenhouse behind Middle School has launched a the middle school, they grew new humanities and STEM (sci- familiar edible items such as ence, technology, engineering, watercress, radishes, arugula math) extension curriculum for and alfalfa, and learned how variables like plantsixth-graders. ing depth, exposure “Helping stuto sunlight, seed dents recognize type and soil integtransferable skills rity af fected the to the real world, plants’ growth. and connecting Students tracked STEM with other their results, and s u b j e c t s, ” N u r s e recorded and subsaid, are the two primitted their findmary goals of the ings in Google vidnew curriculum. eos. It is divided into Sixth-grader four units, taught in Dani Altmann said p r o g r e s s i o n NAtASHA NuRSe the experience t h r o u g h o u t t h e Sixth-grade teacher, helped her see how school year. Unit 1, Long Beach ideas from ancient which began in SepMiddle School civilizations can tember and was shape the present written by Nurse, featured learning about green- and the future. “I learned how houses, in which students had inventions evolved over time to the chance to examine past become more efficient,” she farming techniques and grow said, “and how plants, science and innovation all connect to their own plants. “The goal of this exercise society.” While the hands-on curricuwas to provide the students with a hands-on approach,” lum is meant to be engaging for Nurse said. “Allow them to fol- students, it can be overwhelmlow the plant-growing process, Continued on page 6
By AIDAN WARSHAVSKY
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gerald Haber, of american Legion post 972, left, and dan Macphee, of Veterans of Foreign Wars post 1384, led the Veterans day ceremony on tuesday.
Reflecting on the service and sacrifice of local veterans By AIDAN WARSHAVSKY Correspondent
This year’s Veterans Day in Long Beach offered thanks to those it honored for their military service in a way that was much more than symbolic: Gerald Haber, commander of the American Legion Victor Murtha Post 972, noted the approval of a new housing complex for homeless veterans in nearby Island Park. “I have a wonderful update,” Haber said of the project, which was approved by the Town of Hempstead’s Board of Appeals in August. What will become the Tunnel To Towers Village will replace the long-vacant, problem-plagued Long Beach Motor Inn in Island Park. The complex is expected to have over 50 units with private amenities. Veterans will also be offered job training, transporta-
tion and a comprehensive support system. Tunnel to Towers is a nonprofit that is dedicated to supporting military veterans and first responders. Haber’s announcement kicked off the Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony at Long Beach City Hall on Tuesday, sponsored by the Joint Veterans Organization in cooperation with the city to recognize and honor all military veterans. Post 972 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Lt. John F. O’Grady Post 1384 comprise the joint group. Originally known as Armistice Day, the remembrance became a federal holiday in 1938, honoring World War I veterans in a celebration of peace. An act of Congress created Veterans Day in 1954, as a tribute to military veterans past and present. Nassau County Legislator Patrick MulContinued on page 9
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