🥾E & O Volunteer Opportunity: VES Land Trust School Trips

VES Land Trust has a few more Fall opportunities on the calendar! We are excited to offer Accomac and Northampton Elementary schools the opportunity to visit Brownsville Preserve and participate in a nature walk covering a variety of habitats, living vs. nonliving, and natural resources.

• 9:15/9:45 a.m. Students arrive, buses drop off at the TNC office at Brownsville Preserve,  11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, VA 23413
• 9:45 a.m. Welcome and introduction by VESLT
• 10 a.m. 1 mile nature walk with scavenger hunt on the Birding and Wildlife Trail
• 11:15 a.m. Activities – identifying bones and shells, art reflection/journaling based on the scavenger hunt, platform looking over the marsh and to the Barrier Islands
• 12 p.m. Lunch (please bring your lunch, we will have some snacks available for volunteers)
• 1 p.m. 1 mile walk back to the office where busses pick up

Ideally, we will have enough volunteers (6-8) to co-lead a class of students or to break the classes into smaller groups. I will also be looking for help leading the shell/bone identifying and marsh/Barrier Island viewing platform activities. For the shell/bone identification, TNC lends us a bin of shells and bones collected locally. For the viewing platform, the leader will take 5 students at a time up to look out over the marsh. You can talk about marsh habitat, tides, and the Barrier Islands with them. The classes will rotate through each activity.