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New End of the year Class Trips or overnight options!!
Our
partnership with Coutts-Moriarty Camp provides their specialties like
the 30' tall climbing walls and high ropes course, the cabins for
sleeping, and Lake Salem for swimming, kayaking, canoeing, and fishing.
Call Jason or Annie @ 673-5638 or email programs@siskinea.org for more
info.
Natural Science Programs As with all of our programs, our larger goal with our natural science programs is to encourage and challenge students to think critically about information, issues, and their choices. With this in mind, all of our programs use a balanced blend of ecological vocabulary and concepts, hands-on exploration, debrief and discussion, a mix of art, music, and reflective writing. Our staff have the depth and experience to deliver these programs in an age approriate model to students of all ages.
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Have to Have a Habitat
This class introduces inspiring role models such as Rachel Carson. It covers concepts such as the components of habitat, habitat specific adaptations, limiting factors, and carrying capacity through investigations into habitats ranging from bogs to ponds to small school woodlots.
Forest Ecology & Management
Students begin this class by developing a basic understanding of forest ecology and culminate by thinking through a small scale forest management challenge the solution which they then implement as a service project.
Forest to Finished Product: a woodworking fundraiser
Instead of selling candy bars, consider this class that combines forest ecology with a high quality, student built, wood project to be sold as a fundraiser. Contact us for details on how this innovative program has been funded, run, and successfully raised thousands of dollars for local schools while simultaneously teaching about the natural history of the Northern Forest.
Aquatic Ecology
Exploration of a riparian forest (a forest along a stream or river), hands-on investigations into the use of amphibians and aquatic insects as living indicators of water quality, combined with a short paddle into a shallow beaver pond provides one of our favorite natural science offerings.
Winter Ecology
Begin to unlock the mysteries of nature in winter as we venture out into the cold and snow to look for examples and signs of the winter strategies and adaptations utilized by our region’s plants and animals.
Tracking & Animal Sign
While many of our relatively common Northern Forest neighbors are surprisingly secretive and difficult to observe directly, they often leave tracks and other signs (scat, scrapes, browse, beds, and such) behind that provide important clues that ecologists and students alike can use as clues to their numbers, health, and habits.
Geology of Vermont
What do volcanoes have to do with Vermont’s geology? How are glaciers and maple syrup production connected? What do chocolate chip cookies and igneous rocks have in common? This class not only covers the basics but also seeks to engage each student’s imagination with hands-on activities, fantastic tales, and a hike to a giant glacial erratic.
Other Topics
Invasive exotic species, reptiles and amphibians, bird biology, butterfly and insect basics, bat biology, conservation, and alternative cleaners, recycling and the impact of household hazardous wastes on water quality are some examples.
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