Exploring Your Local Habitat ...Hey, let's try to get outside!!
Wildlife of the School and Neighborhood
Orienteering and Compasses
Geo-Caching
Wildlife "Making Tracks"
Wilderness Survival
Think Global, Act Local
Hike the Beach to the Breach
[Field-trip to Fire Island National Seashore, Bellport NY] [Flier click here]
A fresh, new approach to barrier island ecology for Long Island schools! Bellport, NY holds a key access point to Long Island's only designated Wilderness Area...Fire Island National Seashore through Bellport's exclusive Ho Hum Beach. Depending on your class focus, we will cover barrier beach ecology, wildlife and of course, our natural history! Additionally, we can cover Human Impacts on the Environment, and that leads nicely into the debate over the Breach at Old Inlet...to leave it open or forcibly close it. Students will learn the pros, the cons, the fears, the facts...and then conduct their own water chemistry study while standing at the inlet...students are challenged to crunch it all together into their final decision...leave the inlet or close it? This field trip is a weekday trip in the months of September, October, April, May and June, and is limited to 2 classes per day but will be treated to an incredible wilderness experience like no other on Long Island! You don't want to miss it!
The Five Senses
The Five Senses Hike
Let me challenge your students with 1-2 hours worth of sensory activities. This can be setup in your gym, your school yard, or even better at a local Park! We will conduct active and hands-on activities involving sense of touch, hearing, and smell. Compare your senses against those of animals and gain empathy for the plight of wildlife finding each other in nature. Activities are most effective with 1 class per activity although we can setup alternative stations and switch.
Bird Study
Birds: Birding by Eye and Ear
Bobwhite Quail vs Ticks Study
Please visit our whole page dedicated to the BWQ vs Ticks Study.
Owl Study & Owl Pellet Dissection
Night Hike Owl Prowl
Pond Study
Pond and Stream Field Trip
Perhaps our longest-running program, let us delight your students with pond ecology studies! We start with an introduction to pond organisms, safety rules of conduct around the pond, how to properly use the dip nets, and then GO...students are allowed to use their new-found skills to catch and identify a whole host of pond bugs, tadpoles, frogs, and even plants. We can also check out the tiny microscopic organisms. Back in school we can reconstruct a food web based on our findings at the pond! Starting at 2nd Grade through high school.
Canoe Trip River Ecology
River ecology at its BEST! Let me lead your classes down either the Carmans, Peconic or Nissequogue Rivers and provide a complete picture of River Ecology including the natural history of the area, reading the changes in plant communities, fresh to salt water changes, watersheds, fishes of Long Island, and of course...how to canoe!
Forests, Ecology and Natural History
Woods Walk: The Story of Our Forest
Fire Ecosystem in the Pine Barrens
Weather vs. Climate
Soil Studies
The Beach vs Bay Ecology
Long Island Geology: The Story of our Island
Wildlife of the School and Neighborhood
Orienteering and Compasses
Geo-Caching
Wildlife "Making Tracks"
Wilderness Survival
Think Global, Act Local
Hike the Beach to the Breach
[Field-trip to Fire Island National Seashore, Bellport NY] [Flier click here]
A fresh, new approach to barrier island ecology for Long Island schools! Bellport, NY holds a key access point to Long Island's only designated Wilderness Area...Fire Island National Seashore through Bellport's exclusive Ho Hum Beach. Depending on your class focus, we will cover barrier beach ecology, wildlife and of course, our natural history! Additionally, we can cover Human Impacts on the Environment, and that leads nicely into the debate over the Breach at Old Inlet...to leave it open or forcibly close it. Students will learn the pros, the cons, the fears, the facts...and then conduct their own water chemistry study while standing at the inlet...students are challenged to crunch it all together into their final decision...leave the inlet or close it? This field trip is a weekday trip in the months of September, October, April, May and June, and is limited to 2 classes per day but will be treated to an incredible wilderness experience like no other on Long Island! You don't want to miss it!
The Five Senses
The Five Senses Hike
Let me challenge your students with 1-2 hours worth of sensory activities. This can be setup in your gym, your school yard, or even better at a local Park! We will conduct active and hands-on activities involving sense of touch, hearing, and smell. Compare your senses against those of animals and gain empathy for the plight of wildlife finding each other in nature. Activities are most effective with 1 class per activity although we can setup alternative stations and switch.
Bird Study
Birds: Birding by Eye and Ear
Bobwhite Quail vs Ticks Study
Please visit our whole page dedicated to the BWQ vs Ticks Study.
Owl Study & Owl Pellet Dissection
Night Hike Owl Prowl
Pond Study
Pond and Stream Field Trip
Perhaps our longest-running program, let us delight your students with pond ecology studies! We start with an introduction to pond organisms, safety rules of conduct around the pond, how to properly use the dip nets, and then GO...students are allowed to use their new-found skills to catch and identify a whole host of pond bugs, tadpoles, frogs, and even plants. We can also check out the tiny microscopic organisms. Back in school we can reconstruct a food web based on our findings at the pond! Starting at 2nd Grade through high school.
Canoe Trip River Ecology
River ecology at its BEST! Let me lead your classes down either the Carmans, Peconic or Nissequogue Rivers and provide a complete picture of River Ecology including the natural history of the area, reading the changes in plant communities, fresh to salt water changes, watersheds, fishes of Long Island, and of course...how to canoe!
Forests, Ecology and Natural History
Woods Walk: The Story of Our Forest
Fire Ecosystem in the Pine Barrens
Weather vs. Climate
Soil Studies
The Beach vs Bay Ecology
Long Island Geology: The Story of our Island