BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Jake Carpenter, 7, left, and classmates look for birds, squirrels and other creatures in the woods behind Amesbury Elementary School. The students in Bruce McBrien's technology class are used to learning on computers, but Thursday morning he handed them binoculars he procured with a grant for them to learn about optics, another kind of technology, to see things close up and far away and to make comparisons.

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