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