SCHOOLS

Being members of the Alliance of New Jersey Environmental Educators (ANJEE), our trips offer an excellent way for educators to meet tough requirements.

A trip aboard the SKIMMER is more than just a fun outing. It is an educational experience.   Students will interact with one of the richest ecosystems on Earth.  Acre for acre no other habitat surpasses the salt marsh in bio-mass production.  The concepts of bio-diversity, species interdependence, and habitat protection are majestically apparent.  For example, 70 percent of all fish harvested in the ocean are dependent on the salt marsh.   Marshes are a vital function of ocean life.

HANDS ON LEARNING.....A PROGRAM TO FIT YOUR NEEDS
We've taken school classes from second grade through college.  We can design a trip to meet your needs.  Classes always love the hands-on approach.  Students get onto the salt marsh and explore its riches (and get muddy).  Our educational trips have included Project WET orientation for educators at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor and the Nature Center of Cape May.  Project WET is the State of New Jersey's acclaimed Water Education for Teachers program.  It uses water and wetlands ecology to help teachers better understand and present basic ecological principals.

LEARNING IN A FUN AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT
All trips are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard inspected Skimmer. The route remains in calm back bays.  SKIMMER is covered for protection from the elements.  It is the ideal floating class room.  Trips are under the guidance of Captain Ginny Powell and a ship board naturalist.  Trips can be structured to meet your academic needs. We can also structure trips with programs at the Nature Center of Cape May, a New Jersey Audubon Society center dedicated to education about coastal ecology.