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Conservation Education Programs:

The Forest Service at Grey Towers offers a wide variety of imaginative and effective education programs on the environment and conservation both on-site and in the surrounding schools. Depending on the desired presentation, students are either bused to the estate or environmental Interpreters visit the classroom. Teacher workshops are offered as well.

All education programs are free of charge.

The programs listed below are designed to not only educate students about the diversity of the environment but also create a sense of stewardship fostered through experiential learning.

All programs offered are curriculum based and meet current standards for Environment and Ecology or science in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

The staff at Grey Towers will custom design any program that the teacher needs. These programs can be given either at Grey Towers or in the classroom to help each class meet their own individual needs.

Examples of On-Site Field Trip Topics:

• The Forest Ecosystem
• Animals of the Forest
• Tree/Seed/Leaf Identification

Brand-New!

We also are please to offer a new and very exciting on-site field trip for High school and Middle school students in which students can actively participate in the field of forestry and learn the history of this profession and how Milford and the Pinchots helped change the face of forestry in America

This program is offered completely free of charge

we will even pay for your transportation!

A Day in the Life of a Yale Forestry Student

Click here for more information.

Examples of In-Classroom programs:

• Smokey Bear - Fire Prevention
• Woodsy Owl - Anti-Pollution and Recycling
• Inside - Out a program all about animal skeletons and adaptations.
• Water World - water conservation, cycle, and discovery.
• Batty about Bats - a program all about this incredible mammal.
• Reading Ranger - we will come to your class, read an environmentally based book and followed by a craft. (This is our most popular summer program, now being offered in the classroom.)

For additional information on environmental education programs please contact:

Daniel Banks
Grey Towers National Historic Site
P.O. Box 188
Milford, PA 18337
(570) 296-9671

dsbanks@fs.fed.us

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