LYNN — The Boys and Girls Club of Lynn had the opportunity to learn about climate change and sustainability on Thursday. Change Is Simple, a Beverly-based environmental education nonprofit, brought its mobile learning lab so the kids in the club could have hands-on lessons in celebration of Earth Day.
The kids were able to study water samples from Shoe Pond, which is next to a business center; Kelleher Pond, which is in a residential area; and Ipswich River. They took drops of water and looked at them under a microscope to identify which benthic macroinvertebrates, very small aquatic creatures, lived in the water.
They worked to determine how polluted the water was by examining which benthic macroinvertebrates were in the samples.
