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Home / DCLT’s Environmental Enrichment Program at the Wixon School

DCLT’s Environmental Enrichment Program at the Wixon School

The Dennis Conservation Land Trust (DCLT) has partnered with the Nathaniel H. Wixon Innovation School in South Dennis to offer a five-session extracurricular environmental education series to 25 fourth and fifth grade students during the spring of 2019. The DCLT’s program launched in February with the release of a new nature newsletter, “The Dennis Explorers,” which went to all students in the school.

You can check out the Newsletter here: The_Dennis_Explorers_PDF_FINAL

The DCLT secured generous donations from the Wixon School PTO and from Tom Thompson of Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc. (South Yarmouth). Mr. Thompson supplied a bird feeding station, which DCLT’s Tyler Maikath installed outside the Wixon cafeteria on March 21, where students can view the feeder birds. The feeders will be a focus of a session on bird identification in May. The PTO donated the funds to purchase nature journals for the 25 participating students.

DCLT’s environmental education sessions begin April 11 with a trip to a nearby vernal pool. Additional 2019 sessions focus on water quality and watershed health, forest ecology, birds, and nature journaling.

This first-ever initiative between Wixon and the DCLT was the result of a collaboration with Principal Tim Blake, teacher Michelle Dunn, the Dennis Water District, local naturalist Mary Richmond, and Dennis-Yarmouth High School science teacher and DCLT member Carl DePuy.

 


The Dennis Conservation Land Trust is a private, non-profit organization that seeks to preserve open space within the Town of Dennis, Massachusetts.

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