Education

Teachers! Our volunteers can bring this BOBCAT, and other local critters, into your classroom! We have an incredible collection of taxidermy mounts of local critters which are available for teaching purposes. When not out visiting kids, these critters can be viewed at the Bowdoinham Public Library. Students and Teachers: search for information about Merrymeeting Bay

No Child Left Inside: “Get ’em Outside” is a five-minute video celebrating the value of environmental education. Bay Days: Two days, one in spring, one in fall, on which we invite local 4th graders and homeschooled children to the shores of the Bay for a day of outdoor educational activities. Typical topics include geology, archaeology, ecology, art, invertebrates, fish, watershed modelling, bird walks, and plant & forestry walks. We have developed a Bay-based curriculum guide which uses the Bay as a tool to teach many of the requirements of the Maine Learning Results program. Our School Outreach Program: links up local elementary school teachers with volunteers willing to come into their classrooms and share expertise about a variety of Bay-related topics (e.g., ecology, birds, geology, archaeology, local history, botany, wetlands, etc). We also have a program that brings taxidermy mounts of local critters into classrooms around the Bay.