The Dahlem Environmental Education Center offers educational programs for pre-school through 6th grade. Our programs provide a hands-on experience that helps to make learning memorable and fun. Our programs help meet benchmarks for Michigan Curriculum Framework in both Social Studies and Science, and are an interesting way for students to learn about nature.
We offer both in-school programs and structured field trips. To learn more about bringing our living laboratory to your school, please visit our in-school programs. For a great opportunity to have your students study in a natural setting, please visit our field trip programs.
To find out more about how our programs can help meet benchmarks for Michigan Curriculum Framework, take a moment to view our benchmark correlations.
To obtain a teacher packet that includes more information on the Dahlem Center and our programs, please follow the link provided below.
Teacher packets contain lesson plans and materials that are specific to each individual program.
Bringing Watershed Education to Your Classroom
Our World of Water is an in-school program that is designed for grades 4 through 6 and correlates with MEAP Science Objectives for Hydrosphere, Scientific Method and more!
Thanks to a very generous grant from the Sage Foundation and an second anonymous foundation, this program is provided free of charge again in 2007 to area schools.
Our World of Water Program Details
"Greta Garbage" visits fourth grade classrooms and helps students seek creative solutions to the growing problem of solid waste. This program is 1 1/4 hours long.
Garbage, Garbage, Garbage!!! Program Details
How to Better Learn about Nature than in the Great Outdoors?
The Dahlem Environmental Education Center functions as a living outdoor laboratory and is dedicated to offering diverse opportunities and learning experiences which foster awareness, analysis, and appreciation. Dahlem’s K-6 curriculum units help meet benchmarks for Michigan Curriculum Framework in Science and Social Studies by providing interdisciplinary activities which utilize inquiry methods, include hands-on learning adventures and employ a variety of interpretive techniques.