Environmental Literacy & Stewardship Programs
Our Environmental Literacy programs can be conducted here at the Nature Center or a location like a school, church, etc. These programs focus on our human connection to the natural world through sustainability education, lessons from native cultures, civic role playing, service projects, and the use of science in nature.
Plantastics! / Plant a Seed
What do plants eat? How is a plant like a food factory? How do plants protect themselves? Learn the answers to these and other questions by seeing, touching, and smelling plants. This program is enhanced by the use of audience participation, experimentation, and even a little drama.
A plants is a biological system that uses sunlight, water, air, nutrients and space to function, grow and reproduce. This program explores a seed's ability to travel and plant defenses. The program concludes with a classroom planting of seeds. This programs is similiar to Plants for Sprouts and Plantastics.
- CT Curriculum Standards: Core Sciences; A INQ 1, A INQ 3, A INQ 4, A INQ 5, B INQ 1, B INQ 3, B INQ 6
- NY Curriculum Standards: Standard 4 Science; Living Environment; 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7
Talkin' Trash
This program teaches about the three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Students will make recycled paper and play a recycling match up game. They will also try to clean up their own little of Long Island Sound with a hands-on activity that demonstrates why keeping water sources clean is much easier than cleaning them up once they are polluted.
Sustainable Education Programs
Food Chains and Food Webs Information coming soon.
Habits for our Habitats Information coming soon.
The Earth Stewards Information coming soon.
Native American Culture and Customs
Students will take a trip back in time using the Nature Center's live animals, Native American artifacts, games and stories. We'll discover how Native Americans sharpened their hunting skills and passed down their culture and stories. We'll touch artifacts relating to Native American life and play a Native American game.
- CT Curriculum Standards: Social Studies Curriculum Framework; Content Standards 1) Historical Thinking, 2) Local History, 3) Historical Themes, 4) Applying History
- NY Curriculum Standards: Social Studies; Standard 1) History of the United States and New York
Native American Legends
Similar to Culture & Customs but for a younger audience.
The World of Watersheds
Information coming soon.
Endangered Species
Information coming soon.
The Science of Nature
Information coming soon.
The Science of Water
Information coming soon.
Service Learning Projects
Information coming soon.
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