Middle School

Grade 5 - Wakefield, Rhode Island, Nature's Classroom
Four days of environmental study begin at Nature.s Classroom, located on Point Judith Pond, with a mile of salt-water beach from sandy to rocky soil, where students will study the effects of humans on the ocean environment. There are tidal pools and inlets, as well as a freshwater stream and estuary, and access to vernal pools. The program offers activities and programs throughout the week that promote group cooperation and identity.

Grade 6 - Fairlee, Vermont, Hulbert Outdoor Center
This program is designed to foster and develop group skills, as well as to challenge individual growth in a safe and supportive environment. The skills students learn during the course of the week will help pull them together as a group and strengthen them as individuals as well. Students and teachers alike learn valuable skills that help create a successful year. Divided into small groups, the students will test and develop their group building and problem solving skills through challenging and fun exercises. As individuals, they will test their own abilities on the high ropes course. The students will also spend a day hiking the beautiful mountains.

Grade 7 - Washington, D.C.
This trip includes stops in Baltimore, Maryland, to visit the National Aquarium and Fort McHenry National Monument. Three days are spent touring the nation.s capital with visits to Capitol Hill, The National Gallery, The Smithsonian, National Holocaust Museum, and many other sights. On their return, they will stop to visit the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Grade 8 - Everglades National Park, Florida
This trip is an extension of the classroom as the students study environmental science in the spring. Students will spend five full days studying this fragile and endangered ecological system. Through sailing, canoe trips, hiking the many trails, and walking into the swamps, the students will observe and learn about the vast variety of vegetation and wildlife unique to this environment. The class will also visit the John Pennekamp State Park . the only underwater state park in the country designed to protect our fragile coral reefs.