Education and Outreach

Education and Outreach

O V E R V I E W

In addition to our long-term technical assistance, Heritage Conservancy also offers educational programs and events to municipal officials, educators, community groups, and the general public. With these education and outreach services, the Conservancy seeks to widen the impact we can have on the preservation of our natural and historic resources by helping others to understand the value of conservation and to implement conservation projects.

These programs may be driven by requests from municipalities or their environmental advisory councils (EACs), or they may originate with community organizations or Heritage Conservancy staff identifying a need in the community for knowledge that we can provide.

These programs can be either broad or specific, either technical or intended for a lay audience, and have resulted in identifying long-term technical assistance needs. Heritage Conservancy staff can often respond to requests for speaking engagements or educational programs on a very rapid timeline.

M E T H O D S

With its education and outreach services, Heritage Conservancy provides tools to decision-makers on a variety of issues related to development, water quality, and land use planning. We also provide continuing education to teachers about such conservation-related issues as invasive plants and water resources, so that they can share this important information with their students and, by extension, the larger community. And, we offer many enjoyable educational programs to our members and the general public throughout the year that familiarize and engage people with the important natural and historic resources in their own backyards and with methods they can use to preserve these resources.

P R O J E C T   H I G H L I G H T S

In summer 2006, Heritage Conservancy worked with Peace Valley Nature Center to provide science training to Doylestown Township elementary school teachers. The project involved collecting and preparing educational materials that would supplement the existing science curriculum for the second, fourth and fifth grades, covering such topics as seeds and plants, "above and below the sea," and scientific classification. The materials were then presented to the teachers in a series of workshops, providing hands-on learning experiences for them to incorporate into their classrooms. Read more about this project.

Other education and outreach programs we've conducted include:

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