Coastal Science Investigation (Grades 6-8)

8 week; 3 Hour after-school program

SoundWaters Coastal Science Investigation(CSI) program is an after school science enrichment and environmental education program. The CSI curriculum supports and enhances the students’ in-class science curriculum and the new performance objectives to be tested in the Connecticut Mastery Tests in Science.

The emphasis of CSI is hands-on science. Each session includes an outdoor field component and an indoor laboratory session.  Students will investigate different components of a salt marsh, rocky inter tidal zone, forested upland, beaches, and  sail aboard the SoundWaters schooner, an unforgettable experience including the thrill of trawling for fish, sail handling and conduct water quality sampling.

In each session, students draw upon key scientific methods and concepts, such as diversity, habitat structure, data collection, and observational techniques. The focus of the program is on thinking like a scientist:  students will use key scientific tools, work  using the scientific methods (developing hypothesis, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing data, determining results and presenting outcomes.

For more information please contact:

Alisha Milardo , Vice President, Education

alisha@soundwaters.org

(203)-406-3312