Educational Presentations
New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance - NECWA provides educational and engaging classroom and community programs for learners and nature enthusiasts of all ages.
- Choose from a variety of program topics that focus on the unique marine wildlife that live along our New England coastlines.
- Incorporate our hands-on learning activities and educational displays into each presentation that support colorful and informative PowerPoint presentations.
- Create a unique presentation that is geared to the specific age level and focus of the participants.
- Modify the content of the presentation to focus on specific classroom and curriculum needs.
- All presentations address National Science Standards.
Cost: The cost of each presentation is $150 for a 50-minute program.
Contact us to learn more!
Call 508-946-4345 or email us at contact@necwa.org to discuss or schedule one of NECWA’s coastal marine programs today.
School PTO’s! These presentations are perfect for school assembly programs for middle school and high school students. And they are reasonably priced to fit your budget!
Choose from a list of our available programs below and read about the hands-on learning activities and educational displays that are available.
Presentations available include:
- Whales, dolphins and porpoises in New England waters.
- The unique coastal marine wildlife off New England.
- Long-term studies on humpback whales in the western North Atlantic.
- The impact of coastal and commercial whaling on baleen whales.
- The North Atlantic Right Whale: a species in peril.
- The secret life of a gentle giant, the basking shark.
- Coastal pelagic fish in our New England waters.
- The New England Basking Shark Project and YOU! Become a Coastal Wildlife Observer by joining our volunteer marine sighting network.
- Using photo-identification techniques to learn about marine wildlife.
- The amazing lives of shorebirds and seabirds off New England.
- The significance of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off our New England coast.
Hands on and auditory materials include:
- Whale baleen - humpback, finback and minke baleen.
- Whale teeth - sperm whale, false killer whale and Atlantic white-sided dolphin.
- Prey items - preserved copepods, krill, and sand lance.
- Barnacles - whole preserved specimens and exoskeletons.
- Whale bones - skulls, lower jaws, ribs, vertebrae, etc.
- Humpback songs recorded in the waters of the Caribbean.
- Underwater recordings of a variety of marine mammals.
Educational Activities:
- The Art of Filter Feeding. Appropriate for pre-K to grade 7.
Using hand-made models of basking sharks and North Atlantic right whales, participants learn how basking sharks and right whales filter zooplankton from the ocean. - Fishing for a Keeper! Appropriate for grades 3 to grades 8.
Participants use real fishing poles to catch models of salt-water fish. The species of fish caught is determined using field keys and the length of the fish is determined using a fish measuring board. With this information and information from the State, participants determine if their fish is a keeper! - Photo-identification techniques. Appropriate for grades 5 and above.
Participants examine photographs of the ventral tail patterns of unknown humpback whales and compare these photos to photos of known individuals in a catalog. Through these activities, participants learn about photo-ID techniques and the information that they provide to long-term research studies. - Giants of the Sea. Appropriate for all ages.
Using a metric measuring tape, participants measure the various lengths of a variety of marine wildlife.
