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Clark Park Nature Center
A natural habitat for deer, turkey and other wildlife, the Clark Park Nature Center provides an environmental educational experience for students.
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Links
- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission - Wildlife Species and Habitat Information A North Carolina Wildlife Resources site with detailed information about wildlife resources and management in the state. Information about animals such as the wood duck, white-tailed deer, beaver, wild turkey, quail, sea turtles, and predators such as various owls, osprey, black bear, wild boar and the gray fox is found here.
- NatureWorks Learn about animal adaptations, habitats and interdependence or go straight to the facts about North American animals and birds.
- EEK! Environmental Education for Kids An electronic magazine for kids in grades 4-8 and their teachers too that features constantly changing information, games, and activities about nature and the environment.
- Lesson plan: Animal adaptations Students participate in classroom discussions about animals.
- Lesson plan: Elementary ecosystems Students are introduced to the basics of species interdependency within an ecosystem. They perform a simple simulation to see how one species can affect many others.
- Lesson plan: Habitat photo album Students will use digital cameras and explore the outdoors searching ecosystems for opportunities to take pictures of different habitats and the components that go into them.
Related pages
- Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education: Students will learn the importance of North Carolina's wildlife resources at this environmental education facility.
- Carolina Beach State Park: Developed in the late 1960s, this state park preserves the unique environment along the Intracoastal Waterway. The Venus Flytrap and other plant life, the dunes, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals are all protected in this special place.
- Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area: Originally settled by the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, the Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area has a diversity of natural communities including undisturbed forest and a wide variety of wildlife species.
Learn more
- Learn more about Cumberland County, North Carolina, amphibians, birds, ecology, ecosystems, environmental science, habitats, mammals, nature centers, reptiles, and science.
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The park features interpretation and environmental education using the nature center (houses small, live animals and exhibits related to nature and the environment) and park where three trails allow for viewing water activity, wildlife, vegetative types, wetlands, covered bridge, canoe put-in and campground. Contact information: Phone: 910-433-1579 Fax: 910-433-1647. There is an admission fee.