Home School


Nahant Marsh Education Center provides a monthly program specifically geared towards homeschooled children. Each session will be from 2:30 - 4 p.m, usually on the last Friday of the month. The purpose of the programs is to provide homeschooled students with the opportunity to learn and explore nature. Students will be able to examine the value of nature, effects of humans on nature, and how to conserve nature.

Sessions: $6 per child per session
$50 per child for all sessions

Our homeschool program runs during the months of a typical school year from September - May.

*Each child must be registered a week prior to the session.
*Please come dressed for the outdoors and the weather because many of the sessions will take place outside (old t-shirt, jeans, comfortable tennis shoes or boots, hat, sunscreen, bug spray, water bottle, rain jacket, winter wear, etc.)  

Please reference the chart and descriptions below for the Homeschool Programs scheduled for the 2011/2012 school year. 
 

To register for our homeschool program, click on the Registration Form link, fill out the form and send it to:

Nahant Marsh Education Center
4220 S. Wapello Ave
Davenport, IA 52802

Or you can bring it with you to the first day of class or e-mail it to nahantmarsh@eicc.edu.  If you bring it to the first day of class, or e-mail the form to us, please call us in advance to let us know you will be coming.
 

2011/2012 Homeschool Programs:

Program Descriptions:

Reptiles- Students will learn about snakes and turtles. In addition to seeing live reptiles, students will learn what it’s like to live as a reptile from hands-on activities.

Nature Crafts: Birds- After looking and listening to birds on a hike, students will make their own birds to take home.

Birds of a Feather- Students will learn about native bird species that populate the marsh as well as surrounding areas in Illinois and Iowa. This session will demonstrate the difference of song birds from raptors from water birds. We will also be making bird enrichment for our Crow.

Life in a Dead Tree- Students will learn about what lives in a dead tree and why dead trees are useful in a forest ecosystem. They will also get to go on a nature hike and explore a real dead tree and see for themselves what lives in a dead tree. From what they learned on their nature hike, they can decorate our fake dead tree. 

Geology Rocks!- Through hands-on activities, students will learn how rocks form, what kind of rocks are found in this area, and how to identify these rocks.

Winter Sports/Games- Students will go outdoors and participate in outdoor winter sports. This will include Cross-Country Skiing and Snow shoeing. Be sure to dress warmly!!

Mammals & their Tracks- Students will learn about animal tracks and how to read them. They will then go out and try to find their own animal tracks in the snow. The students will then learn about the mammals that created the tracks. Students will even make their own animal track field guides to take home.

Preparing for Spring: Plants, Flowers, and Greenhouses- Students will be planting seedlings in our Greenhouse to prepare the plants for summer. They will also learn what plants and flowers are popular in the spring time at the Marsh.

Pond Study/Crawdad Traps- Students will use our nets and see what they can catch in the marsh. They will then study the critters under microscopes. They will also get to set our crawdad traps and see if they can catch any crawdads.    

Canoeing/Kayaking- Students will learn how Native Americans got across lakes and rivers by learning how to canoe and kayak.

This was our December 2010 Program on Raptors!