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We love kids even more than we love blueberries. We welcome and are always ready to schedule visits by school classes for delightful educational and activity-oriented outings: We’ll tell them and show them that blueberries TASTE amazing (then we’ll throw in a few facts about eating healthy). We’ll plant “teaching gardens” with them and let them get good and dirty Read more...
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For ages 8-12. We will spend our days swimming and catching minnows in the lake, picking blueberries on the farm, paddling on the lake, exploring the woods, climbing the trees, learning about the local plants and animals, creating art out of natural materials, playing lots of games, and making meaningful friendships. Read more...
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Explore Dauphin Island and Mobile Bay with Sea Lab Camps. Camps include: Barrier Island Explorer, Marine DeTECHtives, Gulf Island Journey, Bay Voyager, and Coastal Fisheries Camp Read more...
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Salt marshes are not monotonous expanses of grass; they’re fascinating coastal wetlands that are critical to our estuary system. Be a marine scientist for a day, and use seine nets, buckets, shovels, and sieve boxes to collect samples, including crabs, snails, and fish (we’ll release animals back to the marsh). You’ll learn about the important role salt marshes play in Read more...
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The public Aquarium is an exciting educational venue highlighting the four key habitats of coastal Alabama: the Mobile Tensaw River Delta, Mobile Bay, the Barrier Islands, and the Northern Gulf of Mexico. It includes the 10,000 square foot Exhibit Hall, a 7,000-gallon stingray touch pool, and the Living Marsh Boardwalk. This facility has 31 aquariums totaling over 30,000 gallons with Read more...
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Come and join us for a fun-filled Saturday outdoors on Dauphin Island. Discovery Hall Programs is now offering its popular summer camps during the school year, too. On the second and fourth Saturday of each month, we are offering an ocean-themed program full of science, activities, and fun. Each program is approximately six hours long and is focused on a Read more...
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The K-12 Field Classes at DISL are available through Discovery Hall with a variety of field trips, labs, and lectures designed especially for students of those ages. Each program consists of a half-day field/lecture or a half-day lab/lecture experience. Programs may be incorporated into short day trips, or into 1 to 4-day field trips for groups staying overnight. Programs include Read more...
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The Environmental Studies Center is a natural sciences education facility designed to provide unique learning experiences. Featuring over 500 acres of rich woodlands, the Center affords teachers, students, and the general public an opportunity to experience firsthand the natural environment. Teachers may choose from programs that are correlated to the Alabama Science Course of Study at each grade level. Programs Read more...
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Cornerstone Gardens contains natural beauty and wonder of over 5,000 plants and trees comprised of over 150 different species. The Gardens offer interesting and appealing natural beauty at all seasons. Cornerstone Gardens offers guided, instructional tours for all ages by one of the founders, a master gardener. The origin, nature and description of the plants and trees are discussed. Read more...
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Bellingrath Gardens and Home offers educational, self-guided workshops that K-5 student groups can use to lead themselves through the Gardens in a self-guided tour. The Gardens facility has excellent resources for exploring plant sciences, ecosystems, wetlands and conservation. We have designed our curriculum to help meet state and local standards for teaching students as they are actively engaged in learning Read more...
