All Entries in the "Education" Category
The Think Tank: Dory’s Final Blog for NMLC!
Hello again everyone! I am sad to say that this will be my final blog of the summer, as I venture back to school this coming week, a little earlier for orientation programs at my school. Regardless, it has been an eventful couple of weeks since my last post, full of exciting news to share. [...]
Turtle Week Mania!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Today at the National Marine Life Center we started our summer programs. We kicked it off with our first week, Turtle Week, which I had the privilege of being in charge of setting up and running. Today, with the help of my fellow interns and volunteers, we started with Fins and [...]
“Be vewy vewy quiet. I heaw a quahog”
Just only two days ago was the second annual Quahog Day Festival in Sandwich, Massachusetts at the prestigious Hemisphere Restaurant. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry I’ll explain it to you. This day is a representation of the first day of summer. What happens at this festival is after about an hour of people [...]
Welcome to the Summer Interns!
The National Marine Life Center put out a call for summer interns in March. After a competitive process we have brought five amazing interns on for the summer. The summer interns will be in charge of all public education programs, being the face of the National Marine Life Center at fairs and festivals and supporting [...]
New Volunteer Orientation
The National Marine Life Center functions with a great deal of support from our amazing volunteers. Whether it is helping to file paperwork in the office, answering phones when they ring, educating the public about marine animals and rehabilitation, or working with the rehabilitation patients themselves, our volunteers are there! If you are contemplating becoming [...]
Discovery Center Opens Today!
Join us for an educational experience about helping sea life on Cape Cod! Open 10-5 daily through Labor Day. A newly reorganized Marine Animal Discovery Center opened today. Featuring marine animal specimens and displays about rescue, rehabilitation, and release, the Discovery Center teaches visitors about marine wildlife conservation. A small gift shop offers eco-friendly and [...]
Summer Science Institute for Teachers
Teachers are invited to explore how cycles, processes & systems connect life, physical and earth science in a unique, inquiry-based summer science institute sponsored by the Museum Institutes for Teaching Science. July 6-16 9-3:30 weekdays Taught by the National Marine Life Center, Cape Cod Maritime Museum, OceanQuest, and South Shore Natural Science Center, the institute [...]
Service Spring Break, part 3
National Marine Life Center Journal Entries Frank Reske, III Day 3: March 16, 2010, 7:45 am – 1 pm Today I went with Joanne and a volunteer to a high school symposium at UMass Dartmouth to talk to high school kids about what the National Marine Life Center was all about. When we arrived we [...]
This April Vacation Week, Join NMLC for a Whale Watch!
Friday, April 23 11:15 am Plymouth Town Wharf Join us on the first Whale Watch of the season! Capt. John Boats in Plymouth will take us out to the beautiful Stellwagen Banks National Marine Sanctuary to look for these majestic animals. Will we see Humpback Whales? Minke Whales? Dolphins? Sea Birds? The anticipation is part [...]
We’ll take Habitat for $300 please, Matt!
MassMaritime Student and NMLC Intern student Matt Geary developed a fun new way to teach about endangered turtles – a jeopardy game! He developed the game because he felt it “…will help provide incentives to kids in after school programs to listen to our presentation and pay attention.” Matt recently presented the game, along with [...]
National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education!
The National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education. Applications including cover letter, resume and one letter of reference are due March 31, 2010 at 5pm. Applications can be emailed, faxed or dropped off. Click here for pdf internship announcement We had two wonderful interns for the summer of 2009. [...]
Junior Tech Workshops Engage, Excite, and (dare we say it?) Educate
This February Vacation Week, we welcomed nine students from throughout Barnstable and Plymouth counties to participate in “Turtle T.L.C. & Seal S.O.S.” Created with Jr. TECH, a program of the Cape Cod Technology Council, the workshop aims to promote “STEM” skills while teaching kids about marine animal rehabililitation. STEM stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and [...]
February Vacation Week at NMLC
This February Vacation week at the National Marine Life Center, there is something for everyone! Weekdays at 11 am, we offer an update about our patients and the opportunity to visit our headstarting diamondback terrapin hatchlings and red bellied cooter hatchlings. Free, suitable for all ages. Weekdays at 2 pm, we offer “Fins and Flippers” [...]
Slay the Energy Vampire!
October is energy conservation month. Here’s an easy thing you can do to save energy AND money this Halloween…. Slay your energy vampires! The term “energy vampires” (aka “energy phantoms”) refers to the hidden drain of energy from various unused sources around your home or office. Examples include cell phone chargers, televisions, computers – anything [...]
Join us for Spooooky Splash
It’s a ghost…. No, it’s a ghoul…. No, it’s a – it’s a – MARINE ANIMAL PARASITE!!! EEEEEEK! (Insert blood-curdling scream!) Join us this Saturday for a splashingly spooky Halloween Open House. We’ll have arts and crafts, games and ghouls. You can make your very own seal or sea turtle trick-or-treat bag and decorate a [...]
National Marine Life Center Participates in Coastsweep 2009
On Saturday September 19, 2009 a group of 17 volunteers set out to the Cape Cod Canal to clean the coastline between the Train Bridge and Bourne Bridge on the Buzzards Bay side. After 2 and 1/2 hours we came back with 149 lbs of trash and cover 1.25 miles of rocks and coastline. Of [...]
Story Time and Paper Bag Whales @ NMLC
Okay. It’s summer vacation and it’s raining outside. Did I say, “Raining?” It’s pouring. The kids are nursing yesterday’s sunburn from 12 hours on the beach. And you can’t stand one more rerun of SpongeBob SquarePants. What is a formerly sane parent going to do? Who you gonna call? The smart answer is “the National Marine [...]
Fins and Flippers at NMLC
Summer education programs have begun at the National Marine Life Center at 120 Main Street in Buzzards Bay. “Fins and Flippers” kicked off this morning in the Discovery Center with kids and parents having a great time assembling sea turtles from recycled CDs. A donation of $3 for non-members and $1 for members is suggested [...]
NMLC Critter Tank
Can there be anything more exciting to children than a Critter Tank? I think not. Snails and shrimp and crabs, oh my! Children become entranced watching lady (calico) crabs dancing around the tank. Then there are the too proud hermit crabs parading over the rock floor to show off their latest homes, yet coveting everyone else’s shell at [...]
Teacher Workshop Opportunity
Calling all teachers! Dive into currents to better understand water and energy – in the classroom and in the field! Sign up for a summer institute about “Inquiry- Based Science: Investigating Water & Energy Concepts in the State Frameworks.” The workshop will be held on Cape Cod July 6-17. With workshop partners Ocean Quest, Waquoit [...]
