Elementary School at Chewonki grade 5 and 6 students enjoyed a delicious vegetable soup and homemade biscuits outdoors on Wednesday as part of their Edible Classroom curriculum. This fall, the students have worked and learned on Chewonki’s Salt Marsh Farm, where the soup ingredients grew, and learned about the history of the vegetables that went …
Over the next few months, many Chewonki staff will be hitting the road to visit families, connect with alumni, and visit schools. Please let us know if you would like to connect when we’re in your hometown: Maine Coast Semester School Visits: California 12/2/19 Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences 12/3/19 Chadwick School 12/4/19 Cate …
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Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program educators are looking forward to giving people a greater appreciation for American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) with the help of our two new resident crows, “A” and “Z” (proper names yet to come). They arrived at Chewonki from a Verona, Pennsylvania, wildlife rehabilitation center, where both were delivered as hatch-year birds …
Join us in Chapin Hall on December 10 for the 12th annual Chewonki Craft Fair! Dozens of local artists, crafters, and Chewonki students will fill the hall with a variety of unique handcrafted items made of wood, fiber, beeswax, paper, glass, and metal, perfect for all your holiday gift needs. We will also be offering …
Saturday morning brought a dazzling blue sky to Chewonki Neck and set the stage for a much-anticipated event: the formal dedication of our new faculty housing building, formerly codenamed “Farmview 1”. Chewonki President Willard Morgan welcomed the assembled crowd of faculty and staff, alumni, and board members and invited them to gather around a shrouded …
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Wiscasset, Maine. The Onion Foundation has awarded Chewonki a $15,000 grant to support an initiative to integrate citizen science into place-based science education at Chewonki and in nearby public schools. “We are very grateful to the Onion Foundation for this great opportunity to link Chewonki educators, local teachers, and students in field-based research,” says Keith …
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Six Maine Coast Semester 63 students got “the golden ticket”–a chance to hear renowned writer and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams speak at Gulf of Maine Books, a Brunswick bookstore popular with Mainers thirsty for great writing and great writers. Semester English teacher Sarah Rebick, who uses Williams’s work in her course “Literature and the Land,” …
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A couple of staff members cleaning out a closet in the Center for Environmental Education (CEE) came across a fascinating relic last week: a small-scale model of the enormous whale skeleton that graces the ceiling of Chapin Hall. “The crew from Quebec made up the model as a way to present their concept to the …
Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program educator Jessica Woodend recently made an “Owls of Maine” presentation to an enthusiastic audience at Mobius, a nonprofit organization in Damariscotta, Maine, that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Along with members of the Mobius community were fourth-graders from Mr. Stephen Roy’s class at Damariscotta’s Great Salt Bay Community …
We recently asked Chewonki faculty and staff to share their favorite books from the past year. Here’s our collective recommended reading list for 2019:
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