In preparation for the 38th annual Earth Day celebration, Rochambeau Middle School (RMS) 
sixth graders from Ms. Shallon Fingon’s science classes created and shared informative brochures 
on acid rain. The trifold brochures, created by the students, speak to the dangers of acid rain and 
what one can do to help prevent it. 

 The students used a variety of governmental resources from the Internet in the school’s media 
center for their research.

 “The students were required to investigate two or three ways to reduce or prevent acid rain,” said 
Ms. Fingon, Science Curriculum Instructional Leader and Sixth Grade Science Teacher. “The project 
was also a huge literacy piece that contained science content. The sixth-graders had to focus their 
brochure to a particular audience, for example, to young children or adults. They also had to effectively 
put what they learned into their own words.”

 Each of Ms. Fingon’s classes chose the way to communicate their information to the public. Some 
students read facts to the student body over the school intercom, a different class made copies for 
other sixth-graders, while others displayed their brochures in various venues around school and in 
Southbury.

 “We have a display at the RMS media center and hope to have them at the Town Hall and Public 
Library in the coming days,” said Ms. Fingon.