A baby blue crab is caught in the seine net.
| Field Trips |
| Third grade SAIL students take a boat trip on the Charleston Explorer in the fall. Two marine biologists on board teach touch tank lessons on the critters that are captured in the trawl across the harbor to Morris Island. On the island, students observe and learn about both the beach and marsh ecosystems and try their hands at throwing a small cast net. The most exciting field trip is to Barrier Island Environmental Education Center at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island where students spend 3 days and 2 nights experiencing hands-on learning about the beach, marsh, and maritime forest ecosystems, as well as learning teamwork skills in the Need-a-Friend challenge course. At the end of the year we explore Dewees Island with island naturalist, Arla Jesson, and learn how we can use sustainable development to lesson the impact of humans on the natural environment. |
A baby blue crab is caught in the seine net. |
Students live and learn together at Barrier Island. |
Teacher and students explore a horseshoe crab on Morris Island. |
Students use a quill pen to sign papers of indenture at Drayton Hall. |
Students in fourth and fifth grade have recently visited Drayton Hall for a Preservation Workshop. They learned how to "read" the house architecturally speaking, and then participated in hands-on activities that taught them the skills used in building Drayton Hall. They learned how to lay brick patterns, make plaster medallions, use authentic carpentry tools, and make wooden shingles. |
Wielding a froe, students learn how wooden shingles are made. |
Indentured servants for the day learn to lay bricks in the English bond pattern. |