Teacher Dean Leventopoulos shows the students Monday, June 5, what they to look for when they put their nets in the water during Ryan Clover Middle School Stream Day in Little Connoquenessing Creek. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle

HARMONY — It’s the last week of classes for the students of Ryan Gloyer Middle School and, with the calendar ticking down to the last day of school, there’s no better time to exit the classroom and take in the great outdoors.

Monday, June 5 was the final day of Stream Days, a multi-day hands-on scientific event held at the Little Connoquenessing Creek, just a short walk from the school grounds. Stream Days is an annual collaboration between the middle school science department and science teachers at Seneca Valley Senior High School to get the middle school students in touch with nature.

Students shifted between six different stations, including a station for measuring the velocity of the creek and another station where students caught macroinvertebrates such as crayfish in a net for study.