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NewsApril 12, 2010

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Government scientists and elementary school students will start testing water quality this week in ponds and streams in Kansas and Missouri. A team of researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency also will be teaching the children about aquatic life and water chemistry...

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Government scientists and elementary school students will start testing water quality this week in ponds and streams in Kansas and Missouri.

A team of researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency also will be teaching the children about aquatic life and water chemistry.

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The first of the so-called "outdoor classrooms" takes place Friday morning for about 600 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in the Kansas City, Kan., school district.

Outdoor classrooms are also scheduled April 19 in the northwestern Missouri town of Holt, and April 23 in Overland Park, Kan.

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