Camp Don Lee

Check out the programs available to classroom students at this beautiful camp located near Arapahoe, North Carolina.

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• Lesson plan: Early North Carolina Exploration (warm-up activity) This lesson is intended to be used at the beginning of a unit that examines the early exploration of the North Carolina coast and its inhabitants.
  
  Through drawings published in Thomas Hariot's "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" teachers can raise student's interest in this unit.
• 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.
• Department of Public Instruction Documentaries Videos from 5 to 60 minutes in length about historical and cultural North Carolina.
• Lesson plan: Classification of living organisms Students use internet resources to understand that a great variety of kinds of living things can be sorted into groups in many different ways. Students will realize that there are many ways to classify things and that classification schemes vary with purpose.
• The Way We Lived in North Carolina Explores the social history of the Tar Heel State from the pre-colonial period to the present.
• North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (NCNERR) This site has information on estuaries in North Carolina as well as field trip information, lesson plans, hourly weather and water observations, an esturary cam, videos, and much more.
• Historical Highlights of North Carolina A brief history of the state beginning with the early history and a description of many of the native tribes of North Carolina including the Cherokee, Catawba, and the Coastal Algonquian. Find information about the Colonial Period, the Halifax Resolves, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and significant events in the twentieth century.
• EPA Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) Kids Page Students can learn all about nonpoint source pollution, one of the leading causes of water contamination, through a variety of games and activities.
• North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Find information, statistic, data, maps and more about environmental topics that concern North Carolina such as ozone, pollution prevention, mining, wetland, vehicle inspections, and soil erosion.

Related pages

• 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.
• Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center: Offers a selection of informative, interactive and experientially-based programs in outdoor and environmental education.
• Horizons Unlimited: This wonderful education center and museum provides hands-on programs for students in the areas of history and the physical and biological sciences.

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• Learn more about American Indians, Herpetology, North Carolina, Pamlico County, adaptation, amphibians, aquatic systems, arts and crafts, barrier island ecology, beach studies, biology, birds, constellations, diversity, environmental science, fish, fishing, folklore, forest succession, fossils, freshwater food webs, frogs, geography, insects, lizards, maritime forests, meteorology, natural history, navigation, nocturnal animals, ocean ecology, orienteering, pirates, plankton, plant taxonomy, ponds, reptiles, salt marshes, science, sea turtles, settlers, snakes, soil ecology, spiders, squid, stars, tidal creeks, transportation, tree identification, turtles, water quality, watersheds, weather, wildlife, and woodlands.

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Located on the Neuse River Estuary, Camp Don Lee offers a variety of hands-on, interactive, educational programs for groups of students for a day, or up to five days. Programs follow the North Carolina Curriculum Guidelines and are “filled with scientific inquiries, direct student observations in the field studying a variety of ecosystems and the interdependency of organisms within those ecosystems. Through these scientific investigations, students are encouraged to draw their own conclusions and explanations for their activity. With the environmental science options students become research scientists and perform water quality analyses, species sampling, record and graph data, and compare and contrast their results from each ecosystem. Students learn first-hand the importance of good water quality to the life it supports.”

Camp Don Lee has day programs which cost $14 per student and last from 9am to 5:30pm. There are 5 program options. There are also programs which include overnight visits.

The camp also offers a team building program called “Common Ground” which is centered around a low-ropes challenge course. “Participants are faced with physical obstacles and mental puzzles that require whole group collaboration and participation in order to be successfully completed.”

A camp expert is available to come out to your school to present programs on reptile and amphibians coastal critters. Contact their Environmental Education Program Coordinator, Dawn Brut, for more information. 1-800-535-5475 ext. 32 or send email to dawn@donleecenter.org.

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