Students research millipedes to write children’s books
Elena Cruz (right) and another student rummage through piles of dead leaves in the woods at the Lake Laurel Biological Station in Milledgeville. CONTRIBUTED
Just in time for the United Nations World Soil Day, Dec. 5, GCSU students are researching millipedes—important for forest decomposition—and making children’s books about healthy soil and the unseen underworld beneath our feet.
Students in Dr. Bruce Snyder’s soil ecology class wrote books for children preschool age through 12. They covered various topics about dirt and critters that help nourish the…
