Initiative & Confidence
Initiative and Confidence courses are the fastest growing and most popular activities being offered today. Field games and low elements are used with all ages of students and adults to install communication and team building.
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Arlington Echo
Arlington
Echo Outdoor Education Center offers Anne Arundel County students year-round
opportunities to experience the natural environment.
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Drown Proofing
The Drownproofing Program is a comprehensive aquatic safety program for fifth grade students in Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
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Grasses in Classes
In conjunction with Department of Natural Resources and Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Grasses in Classes Program, schools grow and propagate redhead underwater grass in the classroom.
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Terrapin Connection
Terrapin Connection is a supplemental classroom program offered as part of AACPS/ Arlington Echo's Chesapeake Connections program, and is only available to AACPS/Chesapeake Connections participating classrooms.
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American Eel Raise & Release
American eels are an important component of the Bay, both ecologically and economically. Eels are a significant source of food for fish, mammals, turtles, and birds.
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Yellow Perch Raise & Release
Many of the county schools are involved in raising yellow perch from eggs which are collected in nearby rivers. The students take data, observe and make predictions as they raise the fish.
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Schoolyard Restoration
Restoration projects are conducted on the schoolyard or in the community. These projects include wildlife habitat restoration, meadows, raingardens or community stormwater management projects with the Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works.
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Cheseapeake Connections
Chesapeake Connections is the Outdoor Education outreach program which connects classroom instruction with a series of relevant hands-on experiences that lead to environmental stewardship.
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Arlington
Echo Outdoor Education Center offers Anne Arundel County students year-round
opportunities to experience the natural environment.
The Outdoor
Education programs at Arlington Echo use environmental and outdoor learning
to enhance,
extend and enrich classroom curriculum. Arlington Echo regularly hosts elementary, middle, and high school groups on
day and overnight trips. During their stay, students participate in environmental
and outdoor lessons on a variety of topics including animal adaptations, habitats,
weather, mapping, Native American life, the ecology of forests, wetlands, and
the Chesapeake Bay watershed. While developing a positive environmental ethic
and sense of stewardship, students learn the meaning of respecting each other
as well as respecting the environment. Arlington Echo also conducts a number of other programs that enrich environmental
learning in the schools and community, including Chesapeake Connections, Camp
Woodlands, making and selling rainbarrels, hosting environmental conferences,
Drownproofing, Initiative and Confidence, a variety of summer camps, and many
more engaging environmental programs.
The Outdoor Education
Program began with the renting of a church camp in Millersville from the
Arlington Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. Three years
later, in 1971, the Board of Education purchased the 24-acre site, called
Camp Arlington Echo. Later, the program grew to include site improvement,
turning the original rustic camp into a year-round facility with heated cabins,
a large Dining Hall, an instructional Resource Lab, and Field Hall. Arlington
Echo remains the primary residential program facility for Anne Arundel County
Public Schools. Beginning in 1985, early childhood day programs have taken
place at a third facility, Camp Woodlands, owned by the Girl Scout Council
of Central Maryland. Arlington Echo recently began to restore natural habitats
to the site, including two bogs, native gardens, and a natural shoreline.
Presently, Arlington Echo continues to update and add to the program’s
instructional resources, education materials, and equipment.
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