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Outdoor and Environmental Education OUTDOOR & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Resource Directory (Revised April 2014) OEE Share/resource directory 04-14 Outdoor and Environmental Education • Department of Business Services 71 Clinton Road, PO Box 9195, Garden City, NY 11530-9195 • (516) 396-2264 • Fax: (516) 333-6432 • www.nassauboces.org/outdoors Resource Directory by Category – an alphabetical listing follows with a description of the service Museums (See also Science Centers) Animal programs/ Zoos Farms, Historical Centers • American Merchant Marine Museum • Bronx Zoo • BOCES Brookville site • American Museum of Natural History • LI Game Farm • Colonial Farmhouse Restoration • Brookhaven Nat’l Lab Science Museum • Prospect Park Wildlife Center /Green Meadows Farm • Cradle of Aviation Museum • Queens Zoo • Cornell Cooperative Extension- • Garvies Point Museum and Preserve • Serpentarium – Reptile Museum Suffolk County Farm • Gregory Museum • Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary • Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society - • Intrepid Sea & Air Space Museum • Volunteers for Wildlife Sands-Willet and Thomas Dodge Houses • Long Island Children’s Museum • White Post Farms • Deep Hollow Ranch • LI Museum of American Art, History & • Your Connection to Nature • Fort Salonga Farm Carriages (Stony Brook Museum) • Hoyt Farm • Science Museum of LI Aquariums/ Marine Programs • Huntington Historical Society – • Vanderbilt Museum • BOCES: north and south shore boats Kissam House • Whaling Museum (Cold Spring Harbor) • Atlantis Marine World aka LI Aquarium • Joseph Lloyd Manor House • Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery • Old Bethpage Village Restoration Nature Centers /Preserves • Cornell Cooperative Extension / • Oyster Bay Historical Society • BOCES Brookville, Caumsett Vanderbilt Marine Program • Queens County Farm Museum • Alley Pond • I Fish NY • Raynham Hall • Caleb Smith State Park Preserve • L.I. Aquarium (Atlantis Marine World) • Restoration Farm • Garvies Point Museum and Preserve • NY Aquarium • Sagamore Hill • JFK Wildlife Sanctuary • • Riverhead Foundation/ Marine Research • Smithtown Historical Society Muttontown Preserve & Bill Patterson • The Waterfront Center @ Oyster Bay • Suffolk Cty. Archeological Association Nature Center • Theo. Roosevelt Nature Ctr. (Jones Beach) Botanical Gardens In-School Programs • Theo. Roosevelt Sanctuary (Oyster Bay) • Clark Botanic Garden • BOCES: Earth Balloon, Starlab, JBC • Sands Point Park & Preserve • Japanese Stroll Garden • Cornell Cooperative Extension • Seatuck • NY Botanical Gardens • Dolan DNA Center • Sweetbriar Nature Center • Old Westbury Gardens • LI Center for Arts and Sciences • Tackapausha Museum & Preserve • Planting Fields Arboretum • Your Connection to Nature • Queens Botanical Gardens Planetariums • BOCES – Starlab • Cradle of Aviation • Hayden Planetarium/Rose Center • Vanderbilt Planetarium Outdoor & Environmental Education Dept. of Business Services 71 Clinton Rd., PO Box 9195, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 396-2264 Off-site Locations w/BOCES staff BOCES-provides naturalists at any location Overnight Resident Programs • Hecksher Park • Fire Island, Robert Moses State Park Long Island • Jones Beach • BOCES – Caumsett (dormitory); • TOBAY Beach Brookville (tenting) • Sunken Forest, Fire Island • Boys and Girls Harbor (East Hampton) You may request other • Your School! • Camp DeWolfe (Wading River) programs not currently • Dorothy P. Flint (Riverhead) listed. Programs must Science Centers • Quinipet (Shelter Island) • Buehler Science Center support the fields of Upstate • Dolan DNA Learning Center environmental education • Ashokan Outdoor Environmental Center • Liberty Science Center (Olivebridge, NY) to be considered. • LI Center for Arts and Sciences • Frost Valley YMCA Environmental • NY Hall of Science Education Center (Claryville, NY) Please call us at: • Greenkill Environmental Education Site Tours Center – NY YMCA Camp 516-396-2264 • Covanta Energy (Huguenot, NY) Visiting Experts Pennsylvania • Rainforest Exploration Research and • Pocono Environmental Education Center Education (Steve Fratello “Butterfly (Dingmans Ferry, PA) Man”) • Your Connection to Nature (Eric Powers) Nassau BOCES - Outdoor and Environmental Education (revised April 2014) SITE or PROGRAM HABITAT AND/OR FACILITIES PROGRAM CONTENT Alley Pond Environmental Center Park in Queens consists of more than 600 acres of Indoor orientation period, guided interpretive walk, pet 228-06 Northern Blvd. woodlands, meadows and fresh and salt water live animals, nature craft project. Douglaston, NY 11363-1890 marshes. (718) 229-4000 – Education Dept www.alleypond.com American Merchant Marine Museum The Museum is on the McNulty Campus of the US Students enjoy a guided tour through exhibits which US Merchant Marine Academy Merchant Marine Academy. Once was the home emphasize the theme Ships Made America. Students 300 Steamboat Road of William S. Barstow, the building is a participate in a hands-on activity regarding oil spills and Kings Point, NY 11024 designated Historic House by the Society for the water pollution and then pair up for an artifact (516) 773-5515 Preservation of L.I. Antiquities. scavenger hunt. Program is designed for 4th-5th graders. American Museum of Natural History Natural History Exhibits; school lunch room Four floors of exhibits plus Naturemax theater, Hayden Central Park West at 79th St. (reservations required); restaurant facilities; Planetarium and Laser Shows. New York, NY 10024 gift/museum shop (212) 769-5200 (Call BOCES for special procedure) Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation 2500 animals in over 100 exhibits; cafeteria Marine life exhibits, hands-on exhibits, lectures and (now New York Aquarium) tours. Aquarium displays (year-round) and tour boat Aquarium displays include sea lion shows, sharks, seals, Atlantis Marine World aka L.I. Aquarium (open May through Oct.). exotic fish in the “Amazon Rain Forest”, submarine 431 East Main Street simulator ride, etc. Discover the ecological wonders of Riverhead, NY 11901 LI waterways aboard the interactive 2-hour tour boat (631) 208-9200 adventure. SITE or PROGRAM HABITAT AND/OR FACILITIES PROGRAM CONTENT BOCES Environmental Ed. Center Woods, log cabin, blacksmith shop, classroom The Homestead Ecology Program at Brookville at Brookville building. Complete Project Adventure Course reproduces the way of life of the early settlers. It 193 Brookville Road available. became necessary for the settlers to carve out an Brookville, NY 11545 existence from their own immediate environment. In (516) 626-1420 (site) that regard, the program endeavors to investigate the (516) 396-2264 (info & bookings) ways in which the early Americans abused or enhanced their environment in the normal course of existing from day to day. Programs such as project adventure, blacksmithing, broom making, candle making, corn husk dolls, and organic gardening are offered. Overnight tenting and day programs are available. Call for more details. BOCES Environmental Ed. Center 1600 acres. Fields, woods, seashore, pond, salt The day and resident programs emphasize contrast and at Caumsett State Historic Park marsh, Project Adventure course, year-round comparison studies. The program activities by BOCES 29 Lloyd Harbor Road building which includes dormitory rooms, dining staff include pond, seashore and glacial geology, salt Huntington, NY 11743 room, classrooms. marsh study, astronomy, survival, creative interpreters, (631) 549-0071 (site) maple sugaring, orienteering, weather, food and fire, (516) 396-2264 (info & bookings) insect study, Project Adventure and more. Call for more details. BOCES - Earth Balloon A 19-foot, inflated model of planet Earth is set The program is designed to get students excited about (516) 396-2264 (info & bookings) up indoors at your school. the continents, the earth’s rotation, latitude, time zones, oceans, the seasons, rainforest, the poles, types of maps, geography, human impact on the environment, and much more. BOCES - Just Beyond the Classroom School grounds, neighborhood, parks, preserves BOCES arranges for the use of the site, provides (516) 396-2264 (info & bookings) and north and south shore beaches. naturalists, and assists in planning of pre-trip and post- trip activities. Programs are designed to meet specific objectives and generally are supportive of state science curricula. Call for more details. BOCES - Boat Programs Nassau BOCES conducts hands-on marine These programs with BOCES staff are designed to meet Shipboard marine biology and oceanography experience biology programs on a variety of marine research the needs and objectives of the individual class, but (516) 396-2264 (info & bookings) vessels on Long Island's north and south shores. generally include plankton sampling and analysis, otter trawl, bottom grab and navigation stations. Local history, geology, land use, and fishing may be included on some vessels. Call for more details. SITE or PROGRAM HABITAT AND/OR FACILITIES PROGRAM CONTENT BOCES - Fire Is. National Seashore Seashore, sand dunes, forest, bay, nature trails. A field trip by ferry enables offshore marine water with BOCES staff -(516) 396-2264 Camping facilities at Watch Hill. Learning sampling. The magnificent "Sunken Forest" which with Park Staff-(631) 661-4876 laboratory at Sunken Forest, Sailor's Haven. developed amongst the unusual massive dunes is a Sayville Ferry Service fragile haven for plant and animal life and allows for P.O. Box 626 comparative studies of bay and ocean beach habitats. Sayville, NY 11782 (631) 589-8980 (to book ferry) (Note: Follow BOCES
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