School Program Offerings
From tidal wetlands to woodlands, students experience the landscape through the perspective of Piscataway People and traditional Indigenous stewardship ethics and ecological knowledge of the watershed's natural and cultural resources.
Accokeek Foundation school programs are designed using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to ensure that all students engage in academically rigorous curriculum and learning, feel affirmed in their identities and experiences, and develop the knowledge and skills to critically engage the world and others. School programs align with local education agencies' newest standards for social studies and environmental literacy. By interweaving these often siloed subjects, students strengthen understanding in each discipline and grow through holistic learning.
School program pricing:
$12/student
$10/ Title 1 student
$12/additional chaperones
Land Echoes
In this interactive educational experience, students seek to understand the perspective of people from Southern Maryland's history: an English fur trader in 1645, a Piscataway tenant farmer in 1770, and an African American waterman in 1890. Despite being from different cultures and eras, students will learn how our struggles on this Land echo each other. By weaving together Environmental Literacy, Social Studies, and Life and Earth Sciences through hands-on activities, students will strengthen their understanding of the complex relationships that sustain all life and come to know how stories from this Land continue to echo into the future.
Grade 4-9
Piscataway Park: Worlds Collide
This tour uses a hands-on learning approach to foster a deeper understanding of the historical interactions between people and the land. The tour employs Piscataway Park as an outdoor classroom and utilizes place-based learning to educate students on the interconnectedness of humans, the environment, and each other. Students gain knowledge about pre-contact Piscataway culture and history, early colonial life, and contemporary environmental issues. The tour highlights how everything within a habitat plays a role in maintaining its health. Hands-on activities allow students to learn how human actions can have both a positive and negative impact on their environment and each other.
Grade 2-12
Storytime
Enjoy books, songs, movement and fun that entertain and educate your littles! Hands-on experiences covering 18th-century history, native plants, Indigenous and African storytelling, and farm-to-table while helping young children develop their early literacy skills. Available both onsite and in classrooms.
Pre-K-2nd
Cultivating Our Roots
Learn what the terms “native,” “non-native,” and “invasive” mean, and why they matter. Connect to nature and observe the interactions between members of our ecosystem.
Students will learn what effects the actions of gardeners of years past continue to have on our world, and how we can have a better relationship with our environment. Through rediscovering our place in nature, students will learn environmental literacy, social studies, science, and the fundamentals of Social Emotional Learning.
Grade 2-12
Wild Rice
Enter a wetland ecosystem to get to know some edible native wetland plants. Learn how Indigenous relationships with plants and animals, like Wild Rice, have traditionally fed peoples of millennia, and work to restore local Wild Rice populations.
Grade 7, PGCPS MWEE*
(Not available for booking)
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