Wildlife Ecology

Here Cora holds a live
Conch that was later released.

This hands-on, science-based class is designed for children with a strong interest in nature and will focus on the ecology of Florida’s wildlife and wild lands. Lessons include biodiversity, food chains and webs, predators and prey, fire ecology, habitat fragmentation, non-native species, and conservation. Facilitated by wildlife biologist and environmental educator George L. Heinrich, students will practice nature detective skills such as identifying bio-artifacts - found natural objects, reading animal tracks, and determining what a species has been eating by examining its scat. This class includes an optional field trip to Fossil Fest 2013 in Tampa (Saturday, 23 March; in lieu of previous Thursday’s class). Parents may need to assist with weekly homework assignments and are always welcome in the classroom.

Here we examined a
Lightning Whelk Egg Casing

Ecology Homework
Ecology Homework

Fossil Fest