January 16 Program on Partnerships & Community Gardens Still On
Public & Private Partnerships: A case study of Greenwich community gardens and historic buildings. For information and registration, visit.
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Christmas Came Early!
A big thanks for Norm Bloom for supplying some new additions to the SoundWaters aquarium, including this huge female horseshoe crab. Our preschool students love getting to know these special Long Island Sound critters!
SoundWaters Discovery Team
This week Hart Elementary School students wrapped up their SoundWaters after school Discovery Team program with a watershed science experiment. Throughout the program students performed experiments, learned about form and function of Long Island Sound animals, created science crafts to reinforce and share what they have learned during the program and had a great time […]
Water Quality sampling, testing & analysis with SoundWaters
Every 6th grade student at King Low Heywood Thomas is engaged in a rigorous, hands-on year long environmental science and service learning program with SoundWaters. Using scientific field equipment all students have performed water quality experiments including turbidity, soil filtration and analysis of samples to determine clarity, pH levels and flow rate. Students also learned what animals […]
SoundKids -SoundWaters preschool science learning program
SoundKids students determine which objects are living or non-living, sink or float and what form and function is all about in the SoundWaters multi-week science program.
Watershed field science -learning by doing with SoundWaters
Great day in the field! SoundWaters educators led every 7th grade Old Saybrook Middle School student through watershed science. Students collected & analyzed soil cores, sick tested water samples for pH and salinity levels, immersed themselves into environmental cleanup challenges and live animals from Long Island Sound including diamondback terrapins, sea stars, flounder, mussels and […]
That’s a wrap!
A heartfelt thanks goes out to the captain and crew of the schooner SoundWaters for another successful season!
Dec. 4 Green Towns
Business & Environment Lunch Series: Creating sustainable communities. Click here.
Sandy
Still digging out from Sandy. Good news is that everyone is safe and sound. Bad news is that the Center took a big hit, and we have lost a great deal of educational and safety gear. More updates to come later this week. Article from the Stamford Advocate about the cleanup
