School Outreach
Teachers, our volunteers can bring these local critters into your classroom!
We have an incredible collection of taxidermy mounts of local critters which are available for teaching purposes, including:
- Atlantic Sturgeon
- American Eel
- Red Fox
- Fisher
- River Otter
- Bobcat
- Coyote
- American Beaver
- Ermine
- Striped Skunk
- Broadwing Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Great Blue Heron
- Cormorant
- Northern Goshawk
- Old Squaw Duck
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Atlantic Puffin
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Baltimore Oriole
- Ruffed Grouse
- Snowy Owl
- Barred Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Long-Eared Owl
- Northern Saw-Whet Owl
- Grey Squirrel
When not out visiting kids, most of these critters can be viewed at the
Bowdoinham Public Library.
We offer a wide range of environmental topics to teach your classes, including ecology, forestry, maps, and migration.
Saw Whet Owl
Coyote
Bobcat
Learn More about the Public Service Announcement from the West Bath Elementary School 3rd Grade
No Child Left Inside:“Get ’em Outside” is a five-minute video celebrating the value of environmental education.
Bay Days
Watch our calendar for our biannual Bay Days—a chance for regional 4th-graders to gather on the shores of Merrymeeting Bay for a fun day of outdoors, hands-on activities. Typical courses include fish printing, beach seining, tree walks, and foraging for wild edibles. Dozens of volunteers help us make this one of our most popular and long-standing events.
Spring: Chop Point School, Woolwich-mid-late May
Fall: Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area, Bowdoinham, late September
Native dwellings
Watershed modeling
Beach seining