Teacher information

What your class can do at the marsh

Nahant Marsh Education Center, through the Eastern Iowa Community College District, offers a wide variety of environmental education programming for people of all ages. Programs include, but are not limited to:

• Furbearers of Iowa
• Turtles of Iowa
• Pond Study
• Frank and Francis the Fish
• Water Testing
• Guided Hikes
• Bird-Watching and ID
• Cattail Crafts
• Wild Edibles
• Wild Medicines
• Wilderness Survival
• Tree ID
• Wildflower ID
• Renewable Energy
• Solar Cooking
• Renewable Houses
• Predator-Prey Games
• Orienteering
• GPS Scavenger Hunt
• Much More!!

The Education Center has a fully equipped lab, a classroom/meeting room, a computer room, and a kitchen facility. In addition, we have 2 Green Energy machines which demonstrate how energy is made from the sun and wind. To schedule a field trip with your group, or to learn more about upcoming offerings and events at Nahant Marsh, call 563-323-5196.

 

Links to online teaching materials

Iowa State University Extension

University of Illinois Extension

Environmental Health Science Education

Wilderdom

EcoKids

"In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."--Baba Dioum, Senagalese conservationist