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PRE-TRIPS
We believe that a field trip is immensely enriched by an introductory in-class session known as a pre-trip. Our trained environmental educators will introduce your students, through age-appropriate hands-on activities, to the concepts that will be the focus of each field trip. Each pre-trip is approximately one class period in length (45 minutes).
CLASS FIELD TRIPS
Every field trip is geared to the grade level of your students and includes explorations and hands-on activities relating to ecological concepts. The concepts correlate with the N.Y. State Standards. Each field trip is led by a trained environmental educator and is 1 hour to 1˝ hours in length, except for the Dog Beach Field trip which lasts 1 hour.
We offer field trips to three local areas with corresponding themes. You choose the location and theme for your trip.
Please choose from one of the following 3 locations:
1.Sheldrake Environmental Center - (Entrance at 687 Weaver Street)
The Larchmont Reservoir – James G. Johnson, Jr. Conservancy is a 60-acre oasis of land and water that provides a sanctuary for wildlife and people. The Conservancy includes Sheldrake Lake, Goodliffe Pond, a meadow, a river and woodland paths.
2.Sheldrake River Trail - (Entrance on Rockland Avenue
This 23-acre conservation area features forest trails with towering trees, the Sheldrake River, wooden boardwalks over swampland, vernal pools and wetland areas. The history of the landscape can be read in the rock formations and on the old farm trail.
3.Dog Beach - (Entrance at the foot of Beach Avenue in Larchmont Manor)
A beautiful stretch of Long Island Sound shoreline nestled at the edge of Manor Park, where a rich ecosystem includes an abundance of life in its intertidal zones and tidal pools. Barnacles, crabs, snails, and mussels abound, as well as a variety of shorebirds, ducks, geese and swans.
Please choose from the following field trip themes:
1. Habitats - (Sheldrake Environmental Center or Sheldrake River Trail)
Discover what animals need to survive, what they eat, where they live, their interrelationships, their adaptations and their life cycles. Children will use their senses to explore the habitats and ecosystems of field and forest.
2. Forest Ecology - (Sheldrake Environmental Center or Sheldrake River Trail)
Develop observation and interpretation skills, search for animal homes in different levels of the forest, explore the leaf litter, look under rotting logs, find animals in their special habitats, discover how soil is made and look for the decomposers and nutrient recyclers of the forest floor.
3. Seasonal Changes – (Sheldrake Environmental Center or Sheldrake River Trail)
Explore the “happenings” in our ever-changing local ecosystems, become nature detectives, find out how plants and animals adapt in order to survive seasonal changes, observe life cycles of plants and animals and discover interrelationships.
4. Long Island Sound Shoreline Exploration – (Dog Beach)
Observe marine life, learn the origins of Long Island Sound, measure the tide, discover the relationships and adaptations of plants and animals in the harsh and ever-changing environment of the intertidal zones.
5. Pond Ecology – (Sheldrake’s Goodliffe Pond)
Explore a pond, observe and investigate plant and animal life cycles, discover the food chains and webs of aquatic ecosystems, compare different pond creatures and how they move, eat and breathe while learning how their adaptations enable them to survive in their watery world.
PROGRAM RESERVATION INFORMATION
Scheduling Information
To schedule your field trip, call Sheldrake Center at (914) 834-1443 or email us at scheduling@sheldrakecenter.org. We request that you schedule with us, after making arrangements for buses, at least 2 weeks in advance. NOTE: Teachers are responsible for scheduling the bus transportation to/from the field trip site.
The Mamaroneck Board of Education funds these programs with Sheldrake Environmental Center for Mamaroneck Public Schools only. The phone number for the Mamaroneck School district bus service is (914) 220-3390.
Other school districts pay on a per-trip basis. The fee for our programs (which include pre-trip) is $120 per class trip. Please contact your school district for your bus service.
Trip Information
Classes will be divided into two groups in order to facilitate a better student/teacher ratio.
Please bring only 2 adults (1 teacher and 1 aide or parent).
If school is closed due to weather conditions, programs will be rescheduled.
Trips take place rain or shine unless weather conditions are unsafe.
We will attempt to accommodate any special needs if notified in advance.
Please wear sturdy walking shoes and dress for the weather.
NOTE: All plants and animals at these sites are protected and collecting is prohibited.
For more info please contact Amy Bisignani at (914) 834-1443 or scheduling@sheldrakecenter.org.
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