Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program - the species - Citizen Science of the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks

ACLP Education Projects
ACLP invites you to learn more about loons, their environment, and human interactions with wildlife. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more about or participating in our education projects.

Public Presentations: ACLP’s slide presentation discusses loon natural history, factors affecting their populations, and the work that we are doing. Please contact ACLP if you are interested in scheduling a slide presentation for your group. Presentations are given throughout the year.

You're Invited! Learn more about loons and ACLP! Please join us for a presentation at various locations:

6/6/06 7pm Clifton Park - Halfmoon Public Library, Schenectady chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, 518-399-4615

6/8/06 7pm Indian Lake Town Hall, Hamilton County Birding Festival, 518-648-5828

6/11/06 7pm Lake Durant Field Trip, 7am, Hamilton County Birding Festival, 518-648-5828

7/10/06 7:30pm Keene Library, Mountain Lake PBS documentary showing, 518-576-4335

7/13/06 10am-3pm Field Trip - Inlet/Eagle Bay area, WCS-Adk Communities and Conservation Program, 518-891-8872

7/31/06 10-11:30am Hague Community Center, Lake George Land Conservancy, 518-644-9673

8/1/06 evening : Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks - The Wild Center, Mountain Lake PBS documentary showing, 518-359-7800

8/2/2006 6:30pm Thousand Islands Land Trust, Thousand Islands Land Trust, 315-686-5345

8/14/06 10am-3pm Field Trip - Sr. Regis canoe area, WCS-Adk Communities and Conservation Program, 518-891-8872

Mayfield Public Library, 518-762-5479

8/18/06 3pm Adirondack Nature Conservancy, Adk Nature Conservancy, 518-576-2082

8/22/2006 11am and 2pm Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks - The Wild Center, NHMA, 518-359-7800

8/24/2006 10am-3pm Field Trip, St. Regis Canoe area, Adk Nature Conservancy, 518-576-2082

8/29/2006 11am and 2pm Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks - The Wild Center, NHMA, 518-359-7800

9/5/2006 11am and 2pm Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks - The Wild Center, NHMA, 518-359-7800

9/16/06 8pm Adirondack Mountain Club High Peaks Information Center, Adirondack Mountain Club, 518-523-3480x20

Loon Scientists Program:
ACLP brings the practical study of loons into 7th grade classrooms throughout the Adirondack Park with our week-long "Loon Scientists" Program. Students become loon scientists themselves as they 6th grade Loon Scientists participate in a variety of activities and interactive slide shows to learn about loon natural history, environmental and human-related problems affecting loon populations, and what can be done to improve the environment for loons and other wildlife.

Science on the Fly!:
An innovative education program that illustrates how the ACLP uses the scientific process to study common loon migration. Designed around the NYS Teaching Standards, students can use a truly interactive website, view an integrated classroom DVD, and get personal accounts from ACLP experts as they learn the steps of successful scientific inquirey.

Teacher Information:
Teachers, if you would like to bring our "Loon Scientists" Program to your school, please download our Loon Scientists brochure (pdf file) for more information, and contact ACLP to schedule the Program for your class. We look forward to meeting you and your class!

ACLP Printable Brochure

Coming soon!! Learn how to use the Scientific Process like the ACLP does to study the migration of the common loon.

Science on the Fly!
Press Release

NEW!! WCS-ACLP Loon Calendar Brochure

Students in Lake Placid
"GET THE LEAD OUT"

Sabrina Martin, right, deposits the lead sinkers she students deposit lead sinkers for collection retrieved in the “Get the Lead Out!” display at Jones Outfitters in Lake Placid. With her are Travis Tomich, center, and Chris George Bailey's student "Loon Scientists" Balestrini, left. All three are members of George Bailey’s 6th-grade science class at Lake Placid Middle School. Bailey’s class spent a week in early November with Nina Schoch, Program Coordinator of the Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program, studying “loon science.”

Photos Courtesy Lake Placid News

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