Make the Pledge and schools in New Castle County (DE) can win cash prizes! Keeping used cooking oil out of the county sewer system helps prevent water pollution!
The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve offers a variety of Teacher Professional Development opportunities every year. These training sessions give teachers from around the Delaware Bay an opportunity to grow and expand their skills.
Are you looking for a great field trip opportunity or possibly a visit from a naturalist into your classroom? Have you thought about the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve? The Reserve provides wonderful field trip and classroom outreach opportunities for you and your students!
The Reserve offers school programs for students in grades K-16 including a featured field trip for the 4th grade in conjunction with the John Dickinson Plantation. The programs are grade appropriate and are designed with the state science standards in mind.
Programs are engaging, science based, and include a hands-on component. The Reserve offers a wide variety of activities on topics such as watersheds, ecosystems, land and water, wetlands, organisms (fish, horseshoe crabs, shorebirds, mammals, etc.), and water quality and pollution.