Educators!

Oxon Cove Park offers a variety of programs that are both educational and fun. Our education programs are standards-based and use hands-on activities to encourage critical thinking and inquiry. Pre-site and post-site activities are available to enhance your students on-site learning.

Reservations are required and must be made at least two weeks prior to your visit.  Education programs are limited to group size of twenty-five students or less and are offered from October to May.  However, you can make a reservation for your group to participate in our weekly programs and special events anytime of the year.  Check for specific dates and group size for each or these programs.

Please call Ray Whitacre, on 301-839-1176, to make your reservation.

The following is a list of our education programs offered during the 2006-07 school year:

MOOVELOUS MILK
Grades: Pre-k to 3rd
Mondays, 10 a.m.
October through May
Twenty-five students or less
Meet the dairy cow and learn about the milk she produces. Students will also churn milk into butter. Teacher package available.

ANIMAL LIFE ON THE FARM
Grades: Pre-k to 1st
Tuesdays, 10 a.m.
October through May
Twenty-five students or less
Students will learn about farm animals, food products, and farm life. Students will meet the dairy cow, feed the chickens and take a wagon ride through the barnyard area. The program includes loan of an education kit to be used in classroom prior to fieldtrip.

EXPLORING THE PAST AT OXON COVE PARK
Grades: Kindergarden to 6th
Wednesdays, 10 a.m.
October through May
Twenty-five students or less
Students will discover what life was like on the Mount Welby plantation during the early 1800s.  Teachers can choose from fourteen activities based on the themes of immigration, slavery and the Underground Railroad, and the War of 1812.  Pre-site and post-site activities are required to be completed by students. Customed characters and a wagon ride make this fieldtrip fun, as well as, educational!

Sheep Shearing
Grades: Kindergarderden to 6th
Dates and Times to be Announced in January
Twenty-five students or less
Students will learn how wool begins as hair on the sheep and ends up as a sweater.  Sheep shearing and wool spinning demonstrations are included in the program.