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Class field trips coordinate with the Elementary School Science Programs
Field Trips that Enhance the Elementary Science Curriculum
We offer environmental education programs to schools in our community to enhance their science curriculums. The programs include both in-class and outdoor components. Preceding each outdoor field trip, a trained naturalist visits the classroom for a pre-trip discussion and introduces the concepts that will be explored outdoors. Each pre-trip is 45 minutes. These classroom visits help to ensure the children are ready to learn from the moment they step off the bus at the outdoor site.
Enrich Your Curriculum
School field trips at Sheldrake Environmental Center are led by trained Environmental Educators and emphasize explorations, hands-on activities and inquiry-based learning methods. All programs relate to ecology concepts and are coordinated with NYS curriculum objectives and standards and National Science Education Standards. Every field trip includes explorations and hands-on activities relating to ecological concepts. Each field trip is geared to the grade level of the students. Programs are one hour in length.
Sheldrake Environmental Center Trip Themes
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Here's what teachers are saying about us:
"The students got to use their observation skills and act like scientists."
"It connected our class work to the real world."