Allison Woods
Offers outdoor classroom educational opportunities at Allison Woods or in your classroom for students age 6 and up.
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- Investigate Biodiversity Find the basics of biodiversity, expeditions to endangered ecosystems, information about conservation careers, how to do a successful science project, and tips for making your ecological footprint smaller.
- Hydrogeology 101 Contains information on the hydrologic cycle and ways to protect your groundwater. Find descriptions of North Carolina's three physiographic provinces: the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge as well as beginner, intermediate, and advanced groundwater definitions.
- Lesson plan: Why preserve biodiversity? In this lesson from the National Geographic Xpeditions website, students discuss the importance of maintaining ecosystems and find out about the various arguments that people make in favor of preserving the Earth's biodiversity.
- Lesson plan: Trees of North Carolina Students complete activities including tree and leaf identification, species comparison, online research, measurement, and creative writing in conjunction with monthly visits to the "Iredell County Outdoor Education Site"
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- Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center: This 4-H Educational Center provides year-round programming, including team-building and environmental education to students in 2nd through 6th grades.
- Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest: North Carolina's system of Educational State Forests has been developed to "teach children and adults about the complex, interdependent ecosystems which make up a forest and which can be managed for a multitude of uses."
- New River State Park: Visit New River State Park and discover its unspoiled beauty as well as the flora and fauna of the area.
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- Learn more about Iredell County, Macro-Invertebrates, North Carolina, animals, beekeeping, biodiversity, earth science, environmental science, forests, geology, habitats, hydrology, natural history, nature centers, trees, water conservation, wetlands, wilderness skills, and wildlife.
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Located in the Central Piedmont of North Carolina, Allison Woods is an extensive hardwood forest covering over a thousand acres straddling the South Yadkin River and includes examples of nearly every Piedmont habitat. Since 1994, the Allison Woods Foundation has sponsored Spring and Fall Environmental Focus Weeks in cooperation with Iredell/Statesville Schools. In the past six years, more than 4,000 students have spent a day in the "outdoor classroom" of Allison Woods learning about field, forest, aquatic, and wetland habitats.
Teachers may choose from several program topics (water quality, soil, biodiversity, forest ecosystem, rocks and minerals, and topography) or work with the education staff to design a custom program for their students. Each educational opportunity introduces the topic and offers students the chance to participate in some type of hands-on activity (water/soil testing, mapping, measuring, observing, etc.). All programs are correlated to meet objectives of the North Carolina Science Curriculum.
Allison Woods is located at 2106 Turnersburg Highway near Statesville. The site is open by appointment. For more information call 704-507-5813 or email info@allison-woods.org
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