HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday thru Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
School Program Grades 6 - 12
ESTUARINE ECOLOGY
A canoe based program for grades 6 - 12
Students will test water quality using up-to-date equipment and technology, delineate wetlands, monitor Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV), characterize vegetative communities in the marsh, and observe wetland animals in the context of watershed issue investigation.
PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Grades 6-8 - Maximum 40 students per trip
Grades 9-12 - Maximum 56 students per trip
Cost: $210/group up to 30, plus $7/person over 30
OTTER POINT CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY
Science as a Tool
An Interactive Exercise Combining Field, Laboratory, and Classroom Experiences.
ON THE WATER AND IN THE LAB
The Otter Point Creek Environmental Survey is an unusual fieldtrip designed to provide students an opportunity to experience environmental field and lab work with applications to real world situations. With pre-visit and post-visit components, this program is intended to raise awareness of environmental issues in a fun, engaging, and hands-on way.
Involve the students in a scenario that is both realistic and meaningful. The activity can easily relate to real world connections, and the processes involved will hold more meaning and value to the students.
Expose the students to real world field monitoring and laboratory experiences with regard to environmental science, and make connections to actual applications.
Present students with a fictional, but reality based, dilemma in which they must gather facts, evaluate alternatives and consequences, and provide final judgment. In this manner, the students will be challenged to work as a team, draw upon multiple disciplinary skills, and make decisions based upon fact, experience, and predicted outcomes.
PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Grades 6-12 - Maximum 30 students per day, due to pontoon boat restrictions
Cost: $210.00 per day
Programs can also be customized to meet your specific curriculum requirements.
For more information or to register your group for a school program please contact:
Lauren Greoski, Park Naturalist
Anita C. Leight Estuary Center
Harford County Parks & Recreation
Phone: 410-612-1688
Fax: 410-612-0819
Email: lmgreoski@harfordcountymd.gov
Calendar of EventsView all
- Clams - Can You Dig It?08/24/2019 @ 10:00 am-12:00 pmClams are environmental heroes and gastronomical treats! Dig into the mud of Otter Point Creek to harvest clams, use those clams in a demonstration of their superhero filtering capacity, and then dig into the finer points of steaming and consuming clams!
- Tails and Tots08/25/2019 @ 2:00 pm-3:00 pmStory time with a natural twist! Listen to stories, learn new songs, and move like the animals.
- Build-a-Boat Float08/31/2019 @ 1:30 pm-3:00 pmSearch the forest and shoreline for the perfect materials to design and construct a rustic natural boat. How well will your boat float? Test it out along the shoreline of Otter Point Creek!
- Sunday Trail Running09/01/2019 @ 10:00 am-11:00 amLog your miles while enjoying some beautiful scenery and some fellow nature enthusiasts! All skill levels/paces welcome. The course is an out and back, single track, approx. 2 miles long (but you can run it more than once if you choose).
- Wild Rice Canoe09/07/2019 @ 1:00 pm-3:30 pmWander through the waving stalks of wild rice within the marsh. Taste what was once a staple of Native American diets and remains an important food source for migrating birds.
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