News : Conservation Day: Benton, Central Lutheran 5th graders visit Rodgers Park

Water science: Fifth-graders see how many pennies can float in a tin foil boat.

Aaron Askelson helps teach archery during the Conservation Day.

Recycling lesson: Kristin Simon demonstrates how machines sort the items.

Participants see examples of pond life forms.

A salamander was one of the animals the participants could see up-close.

Fifth grade students from Benton Community and Central Lutheran (Newhall) visited Rodgers Park for Conservation Day on Thursday.

Despite occasional rain, the students learned to identify what they see in ponds, and other lessons including: Archery, atlatl, amphibians, recycling and others.

Johnson and Linn County conservation personnel helped Benton County naturalists Karen Phelps and Aaron Askelson with the presentations, along with others.