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The folks at the National Aquarium in Baltimore had an excellent Howard Hughes project a
couple of 
years ago in which they worked with city kids who lived within blocks of Chesapeake Bay
and knew 
nothing about it. NAB developed classroom activities that prepared kids to participate in
environmental 
field trips that took place near Ft. McHenry (of Francis Scott Key fame).

You may want to contact them.

Laddie Elwell
Headwaters Science Center
Bemidji, MN 56601

On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Daniels, Alissa wrote:

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I am trying to develop an environmental education school program for our visiting school
groups, and 
I'm looking for tips/suggestions/advice. We don't have an actual exhibit, although we do
have a green 
roof, which visitors can see, and a number of other green building features that are
"invisible." We have 
a small and kind of weird little area of native plants outside, but aside from that we are
very much in 
the middle of the city, although we are right on the Fort Point Channel, which connects to
Boston 
Harbor.  Our age range is K-5, heavy on K-2. The program would want to be 30-60 minutes.
Many of 
our school kids are coming from within the city, and don't often spend time outdoors.

Anyone out there do anything similar? Any ideas would be appreciated, and feel free to
respond off list.

many thanks, and a very happy 2008 to all!
AD
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Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager
Boston Children's Museum
617-426-6500 x342
www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
"Eureka!" (I 
found it!) but "That's funny..."   --Isaac Asimov
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