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Discover Cayuga Lake: Floating Classroom
Discover Cayuga Lake: Floating Classroom
Floating Classroom cruises are available for classes, community groups and camps, May through October. While our primary vessel is based on Cayuga Lake, our instructors are also available to visit neighboring Finger Lakes. We offer programs designed for audiences ranging from 5th grade to adult, and we are happy to customize our presentation to suit your needs. Our goal is to ensure that students and community members around Cayuga Lake, and throughout the Finger Lakes Region, have access to meaningful, educationally enriching experiences on the water. In facilitating these experiences, we focus on hands-on, experiential learning. Our focal points include environmental science, watershed systems and NYS history, but ELA, art and local geography can be incorporated into your program.
Programming
Programming
Floating Classroom (School Campus)
Floating Classroom (School Campus)
Grades: 5 - 12
Class Limit: 8 - 30
Length of Program: 1.5 or 2 hour cruises
Description:
We offer a boat-based educational cruises from State Parks on Cayuga Lake, May-October. Programs feature hands-on earth and life science minilabs, and can be adapted to explore local/human history also. 1.5 hour-2 hour cruises are typical. We cannot accommodate more than 33 students/cruise, but can run up to three cruises/day. Classroom prep sessions also available.
https://discovercayugalake.org/floating-classroom-educational-program-discover-cayuga-lake/
This performance supports the following NYS Learning Standards:
Next Generation Learning Standards: English Language Arts:
Comprehension and Collaboration (speaking and listening)
Presentation of knowledge of ideas (speaking and listening)
Vocabulary acquisition and use
Mathematical Practices
Making sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively
Constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others
Modeling with mathematics
Measurement and data
Statistics and probability
Science and Engineering Practices:
Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Learning Standards for Technology Education:
Tools, resources, and technological processes
Categories: History / Math / Science / Teamwork / Leadership Skills / Tourism
Cost:
$800/hour of boat-based programming. $60/hour for classroom programming.
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