ASTM International, based in West Conshohocken, sponsors several field trips a year to the Riverbend Environmental Education Center in Gladwyne, Pa., for local elementary schools in the Colonial, Norristown and Upper Merion school districts. The field trips are part of the children’s classroom science and environment lessons. Riverbend’s mission is to “teach environmental principles to children in Southeastern Pennsylvania through a direct connection with nature, inspiring respect for our natural world and action as aware, responsible and caring citizens.”

On May 3, ASTM International sponsored a field trip for third-graders from Whitehall Elementary in the Norristown Area School District to Woodmont, a private estate near Riverbend in Gladwyne. The educational class trip featured a Watershed lesson and model as well as activities in Woodmont’s ponds and streams.

Below, some of the Whitehall students search for macroinvertebrates in a stream at the Woodmont estate along with Betty Schultz, Meetings and Special Events Director at ASTM International. 

ASTM PR Contact: Barbara Schindler, Phone: 610-832-9603; bschindl@astm.org     

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