School Programs At Ashland Nature Center, school groups can choose from 34 different hands-on lessons about our native plants and animals. Includes a discovery walk as well as live and taxidermied specimens to illustrate animal lifestyles and adaptations. An interpretive walk focuses on identification techniques and helps students tune into songs. Live and taxidermied birds as well as nests, feathers and other props are used to demonstrate adaptations and habitats. Insects grades 4 - 12 Features sample collection, examination and release of eight different orders of insects.
Students compare and contrast various insect adaptations and habitats.
6 - 12 Students use scientific equipment to compare the physical, chemical and biological features of a spring and stream at the Society's Burrows Run Preserve. Reading the Forest grades 6 - 8 Students hike the trails and colonial roads at the Flint Woods Preserve and use the technique of nature journaling to record observations, interpretations and impressions of this unique woodland. Each student uses a camera to compose instant photos and creates a poem to describe its image. Other programs cover topics from animals to plants to ecology and history, including the life of the Lenape Indian. Overnight programs are available and a Nature Society naturalist can visit the classroom to deliver any of a number of programs as part of the Society's Winter Outreach .