School Program Offerings
From tidal wetlands to woodlands, students experience the landscape through the perspective of Piscataway People and traditional Indigenous stewardship ethics and ecological knowledge of the watershed's natural and cultural resources.
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Accokeek Foundation school programs are designed using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to ensure that all students engage in academically rigorous curriculum and learning, feel affirmed in their identities and experiences, and develop the knowledge and skills to critically engage the world and others. School programs align with local education agencies' newest standards for social studies and environmental literacy. By interweaving these often siloed subjects, students strengthen understanding in each discipline and grow through holistic learning.
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School program pricing:
$12/student
$10/ Title 1 student
$12/additional chaperones
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Land Echoes
Listen to the Land and interconnect the stories of Piscataway farmers, African American watermen, and English fur traders. By weaving Environmental Literacy and Social Studies on this interactive experience, students will learn how our struggles on this Land echo each other.
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Grade 4-9
Piscataway Park: Worlds Collide
Step into the outdoor classroom of Piscataway Park! From the forest to the farm, students will learn about Piscataway culture and history, early colonial life, and contemporary environmental issues. With a hands-on learning approach that emphasizes sensory observations, students will gain plant and animal identification skills and experience historic 18th-century structures and trades. This place-based learning experience will highlight the interconnectedness of people and the environment and encourage students to be good environmental stewards.
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Grade 2-8
Garden Tour
Experience lush gardens full of culturally and historically significant plants. Students will see, touch, and smell the intersecting foodways of Indigenous, European, and African cultures in Piscataway Park. Hands-on service-learning reconnects students with the land's gifts of food, medicine, ceremonies, fibers, crafts, and dyes.
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Grade 4-10
Storytime
Enjoy books, songs, movement and fun that entertain and educate your littles! Hands-on experiences covering 18th-century history, native plants, Indigenous and African storytelling, and farm-to-table while helping young children develop their early literacy skills. Available both onsite and in classrooms.
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Pre-K-2nd
Wild Rice
Enter a wetland ecosystem to get to know some edible native wetland plants. Learn how Indigenous relationships with plants and animals, like Wild Rice, have traditionally fed peoples of millennia, and work to restore local Wild Rice populations.
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Grade 7, PGCPS MWEE*
(Not available for booking)
