S.E.A.L.S.

Student Environmental Action and Learning Squad

Summer 2008

If you are a student age 13 to 16, you  can volunteer for a week (or more) at Rye Nature Center.  You and your team will learn a wide variety of hands-on skills and apply them to help maintain our natural habitat and improve the Nature Center.

SEALS is a “service learning” program eligible for community service credits.  SEALS will be supervised by a longtime Rye Nature Center Summer Camp counselor and former Youth Representative to our Board.

A typical week will include:

Monday:  Morning start with team building activities.  Afternoons will focus on horticulture including designing & planting native wildflower beds.

Tuesday:  Practice carpentry and landscaping skills; then construct stairs on trails, build Orchard Bee houses, or repair the bridge at Cricket Crossing.

Wednesday:  Learn to identify a group of animals or plants and search our study plot for them.

Thursdays:  Attack our invasive plants, save the forest and reclaim a meadow.

Friday:  End the week with something fun and different.  Learn about beekeeping.  Assemble a skeleton.  Create an energy consumption display. Test the chemistry in our stream.

• SEALS sign up for one or more week-long sessions beginning Monday, June 30 and ending August 22.

• There is no charge for this program.

• Hours:  Drop off at 9:00 AM.  Pick up at 2:00 PM.

• Bring:  A hearty, healthy lunch with plenty of fluids.

• Wear:  Sturdy footwear, no open toes or heels.

• SEALS will receive a safety briefing before each activity. 

• Students will not use power tools, ladders or chemical pesticides/herbicides. 

• Safety glasses and work gloves will be provided.

<<Click Here for Registration Form>>      Parent/guardian signature required.