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Hi Alissa,
The Urban Ecology Institute is located at Boston College
(http://www.urbaneco.org/) and they might be a good resource for you.
If you can get the proper permits you could set crab traps in the harbor
and see what you drudge up (although, being Boston Harbor, you might not
want to know)!
Lucy
Lucy Hale
Education Coordinator, Public Programs
Conservation Education and Science Department
The Dallas Zoo and The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park
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(214)670-7496
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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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