Plan a field trip and visit the first National Estuarine Research Reserve with your students. Discover an estuary, where the river meets the sea. Engage your students with the natural world while exploring a watershed, salt marsh, tideflat and water channel. Allow your students to hike, dig, collect, observe and inquire. Involve students in science, and build scientific literacy.
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Field trip extensions:
South Slough is happy to assist with extend student learning experiences, in addition to a Reserve field trip. Introductory or follow up lessons help tie the field experience to larger topics and make learning even more meaningful. Activities will connect field trips to the classroom, and help students recognize patterns, concepts, and ideas.
Other estuary lessons:
For classes that cannot make it out to the South Slough Reserve with their students, we have engaging lessons available that focus on estuary habitats, watershed concepts, climate issues and research being conducted at the South Slough and other reserves around the country (See the resources list on the right side of this page). South Slough educators can introduce, assist, or lead these lessons with your students.
Guest speaker:
Reserve educators, and even science staff, love to talk and share with students about career experiences, areas of special expertise, and of course the South Slough Estuary! Contact us to discuss the possibilities.
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