Time Capsules

A time capsule can add a dimension to an OWLS site. Considerations for content include students' names who helped develop the site, newspaper article covering wildlife and environmental issues at the time the OWLS was developed, and articles or materials found in the original area. Hand-recorded tapes of site sounds, photographs, and anything environmentally and student related are candidates. To improve the chances that a buried time capsule will not be forgotten or lost, it may be placed beneath the OWLS area designation sign or other fairly permanent marker. Time capsule recovery dates may be in periods of tens of years or every five years for grade schools. There could be as many as five buried capsules, which would allow for sixth grade classes to recover a capsule they buried as first graders. In the same hole, a new capsule of yet another first grade class is placed.

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