Watercolors by Sarah Staple
Education
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Photo: Ed Friedman
Teachers! Our volunteers can bring this BOBCAT, and other local critters, into your classroom!
We have an incredible collection of taxidermy mounts of local critters which are available for teaching purposes.
When not out visiting kids, these critters can be viewed at the
Bowdoinham Public Library.
Please contact us at fomb@gwi.net (666-3372) for more details.
Bay Days:
Two days, one in spring, one in fall, on which we invite local 4th graders and homeschooled children to the shores of the Bay for a day of outdoor educational activities. Typical topics include geology, archaeology, ecology, art, invertebrates, fish, watershed modelling, bird walks, and plant & forestry walks. We have developed a Bay-based curriculum guide which uses the Bay as a tool to teach many of the requirements of the Maine Learning Results program.
Our School Outreach Program:
Links up local elementary school teachers with volunteers willing to come into
their classrooms and share expertise about a variety of Bay-related topics (e.g., ecology, birds, geology, archaeology, local history, botany, wetlands, etc).
We also have a program that brings taxidermy mounts of local critters into classrooms around the Bay.
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Research
Merrymeeting Bay Current Study
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Conservation
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Advocacy
Legal Section of the Cybrary
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Membership Activities
OUTSIDE 2007!
Typical events include
several paddles around Merrymeeting Bay, a shoreline cleanup, an outing to Swan Island, and
a variety of nature walks including mushrooms, mud plants, and geology.
Please let us know if there are outings you would like to see us offer.
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Speaker Series
We have finished our 2007 - 2008 Speaker Series. The 2008 - 2009 series will be announced soon.